{"slug": "planned-parenthood-regains-access-to-federal-funds-as-gop-ban-expires", "title": "Planned Parenthood regains access to federal funds as GOP ban expires", "summary": "Planned Parenthood regained access to hundreds of millions in federal Medicaid funding after a Republican ban expired on July 5, 2026. The one-year prohibition, part of President Trump's mega bill, lapsed amid GOP internal divisions and a narrow House majority. The organization can now bill up to $800 million annually for non-abortion services, though abortion funding remains prohibited.", "body_md": "**Getting your**\n\n[Trinity Audio](//trinityaudio.ai)player ready...Planned Parenthood has [regained access to hundreds of millions](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/04/planned-parenthood-abortion-medicaid-congress-00985879) in federal Medicaid funding as a Republican congressional ban expired after a year.\n\nThe beleaguered women’s health organization still cannot receive funds for abortions but [can resume billing the feds for up to $800 million](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5955263-gop-loses-planned-parenthood-fight/) a year for other health services like birth control and screening for sexually transmitted diseases that it provides to poor and disabled patients.\n\nPresident Trump and his Republican allies [banned all federal funding to the group](https://www.abc27.com/news/planned-parenthood-once-again-accepting-medicaid-insurance/) as part of his One Big Beautiful Bill that passed on party line votes last year.\n\nRepublicans have been unable to extend the ban amid fierce internal divisions and their narrow majority in the House of Representatives and inability to win Democratic support in the Senate, which mostly requires a 60-vote majority to pass most legislation.\n\nAbortion and women’s rights advocates [cheered the expiration of the ban on July 5](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5952223-planned-parenthood-regains-funding/) even though it could be reimposed and conservatives are seeking other ways to hobble Planned Parenthood.\n\nThe ban and other funding cuts has caused Planned Parenthood to[ shut dozens of clinics in red states](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/08/nx-s1-5773333/planned-parenthood-urgent-care-medication-abortion-rural). New York and other Democratic states have sought to cushion the financial blow by increasing spending for services the group provides.\n\nSome Planned Parenthood chapters have been urging Medicaid patients to return to clinics for services now that the ban has expired and at least one new clinic is set to reopen later this year in Louisiana.\n\nGOP leaders have prioritized other issues like immigration and military spending and have been hobbled by strategy disagreements, angering their allies in the anti-abortion movement.\n\n“(The ban) is the default expectation from the pro-life movement,” Kelsey Pritchard, a spokesperson for anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said of the Planned Parenthood funding ban.\n\nRepublicans pushed last year to include permanent defunding of Planned Parenthood in Trump’s mega bill, which they passed on a party-line vote using the reconciliation process. But a ruling by the Senate parliamentarian forced them to make it only a one-year prohibition.\n\nIt was dropped from an [immigration enforcement bill](https://www.npr.org/2026/06/09/nx-s1-5851664/house-reconciliation-vote-immigration-enforcement-ice-border-patrol) that passed earlier this year.\n\nSome abortion opponents hope that Congress will try to defund the reproductive health provider again in a new reconciliation bill later this summer.\n\nBut given the dysfunctional GOP House and factional feuds over other issues, [few believe it can get done](https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2026/06/top-republican-appropriators-say-third-reconciliation-bill-is-not-an-option/) before the midterm elections.\n\n“I don’t know that there’ll be a later,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a conservative abortion foe, told Politico.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/planned-parenthood-regains-access-to-federal-funds-as-gop-ban-expires", "canonical_source": "https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/07/planned-parenthood-regains-access-to-federal-funds-as-gop-ban-expires/", "published_at": "2026-07-07 12:22:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 12:31:18.748849+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Planned Parenthood", "Medicaid", "President Trump", "Republican Party", "House of Representatives", "Senate", "Susan B. 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