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(Life Site News<\/a>)\u00a0The White House submitted its $4.89 trillion annual budget proposal to Congress Monday, laying out a plan that contains numerous spending cuts, including defunding abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. The plan\u00a0illustrates President Donald Trump\u2019s policy priorities, though few expect it to resemble whatever ultimately becomes law.<\/p>\n

The Fiscal Year 2021 plan<\/a> calls for various cuts to the budgets<\/a> of the US State Department, Department of Education, Environmental Protection Agency, and more, while increasing military spending as well as the budgets for the Departments of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, as well as NASA. It projects a $4.6 trillion deficit reduction, but rolls back the timetable for eliminating the deficit from eight years to fifteen.<\/p>\n

On the pro-life front, the plan calls for<\/a> eliminating the taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood receives via US Departments of Labor and Health & Human Services (HHS), as well as funding for the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). It would also strengthen federal conscience protections by adopting the Conscience Protection Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Budget prioritizes the value of human life by ensuring that Federal funding does not support abortions,\u201d the plan explains. \u201cThe Budget proposes to prohibit Federal funding, such as in the Title X Family Planning and Medicaid programs, for certain entities that provide abortion services. The Budget also protects conscience rights, prohibits coercion in healthcare, and allows private parties to enforce such rights in Federal court. With these protections, the Administration will continue to ensure robust protection of conscience rights and religious liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Planned Parenthood just lost $60M, but the battle to defund it is far from over<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Regardless, while the administration can and will continue to unilaterally block certain pockets of abortion funding, such as the UNFPA<\/a> and excluding abortion organizations from the Title X program<\/a>, few expect the FY2021 plan\u2019s new pro-life provisions to make it into the final budget that becomes law. Planned Parenthood has continued to receive over $500 million from federal taxpayers every year since 2016, and reported $616 million<\/a>in its most recent annual report.<\/p>\n

Despite numerous pro-life campaign promises from the president and congressional Republicans, the abortion industry\u2019s subsidies have continued. This is\u00a0due to a variety of factors, including Senate and House GOP leaders that conservatives say are unwilling to fight for the base\u2019s priorities, Senate filibuster rules<\/a> that require Democrats to agree to most bills despite Republicans having a majority, and Democrats taking the House of Representatives in 2018.<\/p>\n

President Trump himself has repeatedly demonstrated<\/a> he is unwilling<\/a> to veto spending bills that contain abortion dollars, though conservatives argue that such bugdet fights are winnable with the proper pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf outside conservative organizations, media, and members of Congress would actually stay focused, President Trump\u2019s second term can be more fiscally conservative,\u201d Conservative Review\u00a0<\/em>senior editor Daniel Horowitz writes<\/a>. \u201cTrump will sign a bad budget if the swamp consensus coalesces around it. But at the same time, if conservatives work to back the non-swamp elements of the administration pushing for spending cuts the president is clearly OK with, he would sign a good budget as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at Life Site News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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