Federal Ruling Blocks Trump’s Medicaid Funding Cut to Planned Parenthood in 22 States

A federal judge on Tuesday prevented enforcement of a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the president’s major tax and domestic policy legislation, that would have eliminated Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood and local partners offering abortions in 22 states. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston ruled that Democratic attorneys general who filed a lawsuit against the measure will get a favorable ruling by arguing it creates an unconstitutional condition on states’ Medicaid participation. She deferred the preliminary injunction for seven days to allow time for an appeal. Talwani described the law as “impermissibly ambiguous,” and said it would essentially “increase the percentage of patients unable to receive birth control and preventive screenings, thereby prompting an increase in states’ health care costs.”...