A federal judge on Monday temporarily extended a block on Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Provision barring funding for Planned Parenthood.
Earlier this month Judge Talwani, an Obama appointee, issued a TRO and set a preliminary injunction hearing for Monday July 21 (today).
On Monday, the judge granted a preliminary injunction in part extending a block on barring funding for Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood sued the Trump Administration over its funding cuts written into the newly-passed reconciliation bill.
The House passed the Big Beautiful Bill earlier this month and President Trump signed in on July 4th at the White House.
“Everyone deserves access to high-quality, affordable health care. That’s what we’ve been fighting for the last century — and we’ll never stop,” President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson said last week. “We’ll be suing the Trump administration to stop this unlawful attack. See you in court.”
Fox News reported:
A judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stripping Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood after Congress and President Donald Trump agreed to partially defund the nonprofit through passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said in her order partially granting a preliminary injunction that the bill unconstitutionally punishes Planned Parenthood member organizations that do not provide abortions.
The injunction will risk “at most minimal harm—financial or otherwise—to” the Trump administration while the lawsuit proceeds,” Talwani, an Obama appointee, wrote.
Talwani’s order arose from a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion vendor, over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a massive budget bill that passed Congress this month with no Democrat support. Trump signed the bill into law on July 4.
A provision in the bill stripped Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, which the nonprofit said could force it to close about 200 of its 600 facilities and deprive about half of its customers, more than one million people, of services that do not include abortion.
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