EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s OMB Director Is Urged To Block Taxpayer Dollars To Planned Parenthood

Conservative groups are calling on the new director of the Office of Management and Budget to stop the flow of any federal funding to Planned Parenthood, The Daily Wire has learned.

In a letter led by Advancing American Freedom and signed by Live Action’s Lila Rose, The Family Leader’s Bob Van Der Plaat, and a slew of other pro-life leaders, the conservative groups reminded OMB Director Russ Vought of his reflections on life from last year, when he wrote: “Defending life is the most important issue to me. Whenever there was a federal decision to be made, I personally saw President Trump decide for life. Every time.”

“President Trump is navigating choppy waters carefully in a post-Roe sea of possibilities to save life very few ever thought possible that exists largely because he kept his word,” Vought posted on X in April 2024, amid consternation over then-candidate Donald Trump’s comments on abortion. “That is what statesmen do. Below is a speech that I delivered in 2020 that still holds up about his pro-life record. Trust the man who delivered the end of Roe when all the other pro life politicians could not. ”

The Thursday letter to Vought, first obtained by The Daily Wire, states: “We look forward to supporting your work in protecting Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars from wasteful spending and funding abortions. As OMB Director, we strongly encourage you to review all federal funding to Planned Parenthood and to take all legal steps possible to ensure that American taxpayer dollars do not flow to Planned Parenthood or any of its subsidiaries.”

The groups point out that in 2022, Planned Parenthood “ended the lives of almost 400,000 babies, aborting more than 220 for each child they referred for adoption.” They also cite Government Accountability Office numbers revealing that Planned Parenthood affiliates received $148 million in HHS grants and $1.5 billion in Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP payments.

“American taxpayers should not be funding this,” the letter states.

“Shockingly, taxpayer dollars comprise 34% of Planned Parenthood’s overall revenue, and its taxpayer funding has soared more than 40% since 2010,” it continued. “Because money is fungible, and the Biden Administration removed key regulatory safeguards ensuring that Title X dollars are walled off from Planned Parenthood’s abortion services, American taxpayers are heavily footing the bill for abortions and keeping Planned Parenthood’s doors open.”

In recent years, Planned Parenthood has also become a major provider of transgender hormones, such as estrogen for men who believe they are women and testosterone for women who believe they are men, as well as puberty blockers for minors, and surgery referrals.

“It’s possible they’re the largest provider of trans health in the country,” Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, told The Daily Beast in 2017 of Planned Parenthood. “We don’t know for sure. But it’s certainly among the biggest, if not the biggest.”

For example, The Washington Free Beacon reported in October 2023 that after a 30-minute consultation, a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Jersey prescribed hormones to an 18-year-old high school boy with autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and behavioral issues.  And detransitioner Helena Kerschner told The Daily Wire in 2022 that she also was prescribed testosterone after a very brief visit at a Chicago-area Planned Parenthood.