
Planned Parenthood wins partial victory in legal fight with Trump administration over funding cuts
Planned Parenthood has won a partial victory in a legal fight with President Donald Trump’s administration over its efforts to defund the organization in tax legislation. A provision in the bill would end Medicaid payments to abortion providers for one year. But U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston on Monday granted a preliminary injunction that blocks the government from cutting Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood member organizations that either don’t provide abortion care or didn’t meet a threshold of at least $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursement in a given year. It wasn’t immediately clear how many organizations and clinics would continue to get reimbursements.