House Republicans are pressing for a vote on a bill for the Department of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Education, which would implement an array of spending cuts benefiting pro-life and pro-family positions.
House Resolution 5894 would, among other things, eliminate Title X grants to family planning clinics such as the radical abortion-pushing organization Planned Parenthood, prevent Medicare and Medicaid paying for “gender transitions,” as well as protect the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits direct payment of public money for abortions.
The bill would also prohibit public funding for gain-of-function research, a type of pathogen manipulation that enhances the transmissibility of viruses, and EcoHealth Alliance.
The legislation “prohibits funding for programs focused solely on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and it eliminates funding for Planned Parenthood and other controversial grantees,” argues the veteran Republican Congressman Robert Aderholt, who sponsored the bill.
The White House has, however, criticized it as placing “radical right-wing politics over the needs of the American people by eliminating consequential programs Americans rely on every day and instead seeks to forcibly inflict deeply unpopular policies with poison pill riders.”
The bill, which would have to pass and be reconciled with other spending bills, is one of the first big tests for Mike Johnson following his appointment to the House speakership last month.
