US EditionCourt allows Trump-backed cuts to Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding in 22 states
The court paused a lower-court block on the law limiting Medicaid to family planning providers performing abortions, affecting 22 states and D.C., with $800,000+ funding thresholds.
- On Dec 30, a three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed President Donald Trump's administration to enforce a provision barring Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states and the District of Columbia.
- Supporters wrote the measure into the tax and domestic policy bill, which bars Medicaid funding for organizations that perform abortions and received over $800,000 in 2023, passed by the Republican-led Congress.
- The appeals panel wrote that the Trump administration likely will prevail, finding the law clear and within Congress's power, while U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani held it lacked clear notice after CMS approval.
- A group of Democratic attorneys general asked Judge Indira Talwani to block enforcement again, while Planned Parenthood and the states did not immediately respond, Reuters reported.
- It was the latest appellate reversal after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on December 12 overturned a Talwani ruling, who on December 2 held it imposed an unconstitutional retroactive condition on state Medicaid participation for low-income people.
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Appeals Court Allows Planned Parenthood Funding Block
A federal appeals court on Dec. 30 allowed the Trump administration to withhold Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood clinics in the 22 states that sued over a congressionally-approved funding block. Section 71113 in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a federal law signed by President Donald Trump in July, imposes a one-year ban on Medicaid payments to health care nonprofits, but does not mention Planned Parenthood by name. Medicaid is a joint fed…
Court allows Trump-backed cuts to Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding in 22 states
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump's administration to enforce in some Democratic-led states a provision of his signature tax and domestic policy bill that deprives Planned Parenthood health centers that perform abortions of Medicaid funding.
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