POLL: Do you agree with Musk and Ramaswamy’s call to cut federal funding from Planned Parenthood?

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From Breitbart: Federal funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider could be on the chopping block under the direction of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In a joint op-ed in the Wall Street Journal published on Wednesday, Musk and Ramaswamy laid out their plans to cut federal overspending and to return power to the “people we elect [to] run the government” rather than unelected bureaucrats. Part of this plan involves slashing millions in funding awarded to “progressive groups like Planned Parenthood,” they wrote.

“Skeptics question how much federal spending DOGE can tame through executive action alone,” they wrote “They point to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we believe the current Supreme Court would likely side with him on this question.”

“But even without relying on that view, DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood,” they continued.

Breitbart explains that Planned Parenthood’s federal taxpayer funding has increased by 43% since 2010.

According to the organization’s 2023 annual report, taxpayer funding in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements hit $699.3 million, and made up 34 percent of Planned Parenthood’s overall revenue, Breitbart writes.

In addition to federal funding, Planned Parenthood raked in $997.5 million from private contributions in 2023, a 44% increase from the previous year. In total, the abortion organization reported nearly $2.1 billion in income and more than $2.5 billion in net assets.

The new X account for DOGE announced on Thursday, “We are going to cut all federal funding to Planned Parenthood.”

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America reacted to the op-ed, writing, “Planned Parenthood ended the lives of 392,715 unborn children in a single year and had $2.5B in net assets according to its last report. They should never get taxpayer dollars. Thank you @ElonMusk & @VivekGRamaswamy for focusing on this important issue.”

Coincidentally, Musk and Ramaswamy’s op-ed calling for an end to federal funding for Planned Parenthood came out on the exact same day that Joe Biden awarded Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Concerns have been raised about the issue for years, but Democrats have always erupted any time the suggested has been made to cut funding from Planned Parenthood.

After all, the organization is also a HUGE donor to the Democratic Party.

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