A group of House Republicans is reportedly working to protect federal funding for Planned Parenthood as negotiations heat up over President Donald Trump’s sweeping “big, beautiful bill,” a budget reconciliation package central to his legislative agenda, Mediaite reported.
Several moderate House Republicans are lobbying behind the scenes to preserve federal funding for Planned Parenthood, according to a report by Notus, potentially complicating efforts by pro-life conservatives to exclude the nation’s largest abortion provider from Trump’s proposed reconciliation package.
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is intended to advance key elements of his agenda through Congress. The bill is being crafted under reconciliation rules, which would allow the measure to bypass a Senate filibuster and pass with a simple majority. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has publicly vowed to anti-abortion groups that the legislation will “redirect funds away from Big Abortion.”
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