The pro-life advocacy group Students for Life Action says it will give lawmakers a failing grade if they let Planned Parenthood funding resume on July 4.
President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” passed last summer, defunded Planned Parenthood for one year. However, the abortion giant will once again receive Medicaid reimbursements beginning on America’s 250th birthday.
A measure extending the defund doesn’t have the 60 votes necessary to pass the Senate, so lawmakers will need to pass it through the process of reconciliation, which they used for the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.”
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said the new reconciliation bill will be released “in the coming weeks.”
Usually Students for Life scores lawmakers based on votes on particular bills, but this time an “F” grade could appear on every member’s record if they don’t meet the July 4 deadline to defund Planned Parenthood.
President Donald Trump said the question of defunding Planned Parenthood again for another year is a “very thorny issue.”
The Daily Signal recently asked Trump if he wants Congress to extend the one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood that was passed in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.”
Trump said the issue is “under negotiation right now.”
“Congress is now negotiating,” he said. “We’ve been very good for the people that want it, for the people that are here, and we’ll see how that goes.”
“It’s been very thorny,” he added. “To put it mildly, it’s been a very thorny issue.”
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America reported that in the 2025 fiscal year its affiliates received $832 million in taxpayer funding from reimbursements and grants.
