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FIRST ON FOX: Former Vice President Mike Pence's blimpish watchdog nonprofit is urging Elon Musk, caput of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to chopped disconnected "wasteful" national spending connected Planned Parenthood.
"For the involvement of the American radical and generations yet unborn, the clip has travel for the United States to yet defund the largest abortion supplier successful America," Tim Chapman, president of Advancing American Freedom, wrote successful a missive to Musk connected Tuesday.
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Planned Parenthood received astir $75 cardinal successful national backing from 2019 to 2021, including $22 cardinal successful Health and Human Services grants and $53 cardinal from nationalist wellness programs, according to a study from the Government Accountability Office.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates accounted for $148 cardinal successful HHS grants and $1.5 cardinal successful Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP payments, with determination organizations receiving an further $108 million. Taxpayer dollars made up 34% of Planned Parenthood’s funding, the missive stated, citing a 2022-2023 yearly study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
"While we are grateful for your enactment eliminating waste, fraud, and maltreatment passim the national government, we genuinely judge that the accidental to defund Planned Parenthood whitethorn beryllium yours and President Trump’s top moment," the missive read.
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President Trump enacted measures past period to restrict abortion funding. He reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits national backing to planetary non-governmental organizations that execute oregon beforehand abortions. He besides signed an enforcement bid enforcing the 1980 Hyde Amendment to forestall national funds from being utilized for elective abortions, reversing erstwhile policies nether the Biden medication that had expanded entree to termination services.
The Biden-Harris administration subsequently ramped up its enactment for Planned Parenthood's termination entree pursuing the overturning of Roe v. Wade successful 2022. Under the erstwhile administration, $700 cardinal successful national funds was fixed to Planned Parenthood during a one-year span arsenic the enactment performed a grounds fig of abortions, which coincided with a diminution successful each different large services, according to Planned Parenthood's 2022-2023 study published past year.
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Fox News Digital has reached retired to the White House, DOGE and Planned Parenthood for comment.
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