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Trump Administration Plans to Freeze Family-Planning Grants
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-plans-to-freeze-family-planning-grants-541441be?st=46bPtE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkThe Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars in federal family-planning grants to certain organizations while it investigates whether the money was used for diversity efforts, people familiar with the matter said.
The Health and Human Services Department is weighing an immediate freeze of $27.5 million in grants, an agency spokesman said after The Wall Street Journal reported the plans.
The groups that would be subject to the freeze include Planned Parenthood affiliates, the people familiar with the matter said. Altogether, the groups were set to get a total of about $120 million this year.
The freeze, which could be made public as soon as this week, would suspend funding meant to support, in the U.S., pregnancy testing, provision of contraception, treatment of sexually transmitted infections and evaluation and counseling for infertility.
An HHS spokesman said the department was reviewing grant recipients to make sure they comply with President Trump’s executive orders and federal law.
The Health and Human Services Department is weighing an immediate freeze of $27.5 million in grants, an agency spokesman said after The Wall Street Journal reported the plans.
The groups that would be subject to the freeze include Planned Parenthood affiliates, the people familiar with the matter said. Altogether, the groups were set to get a total of about $120 million this year.
The freeze, which could be made public as soon as this week, would suspend funding meant to support, in the U.S., pregnancy testing, provision of contraception, treatment of sexually transmitted infections and evaluation and counseling for infertility.
An HHS spokesman said the department was reviewing grant recipients to make sure they comply with President Trump’s executive orders and federal law.