Politico December 16, 2024
COSTLY SAVINGS — President-elect Donald Trump’s close allies are sharpening their knives, eager to carve up the federal budget when they take power in January. And while much of what they will target for elimination remains a mystery, the shrink-the-government brigade has openly taken up a longstanding battle cry of social conservatives: defunding Planned Parenthood.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of the vaguely defined “Department of Government Efficiency” that will be recommending cuts to the Trump administration, wrote in a November op-ed that they will “help end federal overspending by taking aim at” an array of programs, and specifically called out “nearly $300 million [going] to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.”
Anti-abortion activists and GOP lawmakers who have...
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