{"id":322708,"date":"2024-12-06T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=322708"},"modified":"2024-12-06T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T19:33:38","slug":"house-speaker-mike-johnson-defund-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-defund-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker Mike Johnson says he ‘would like to’ defund Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, said this week he hopes to defund Planned Parenthood once the new Trump administration is in place.<\/p>\n

While appearing on Fox News\u2019 \u201cThe Story with Martha MacCallum,\u201d Johnson said the abortion giant will be defunded if Congress is willing to approve it. \u201cI would like to. That\u2019s for sure,\u201d Johnson said, after MacCallum asked if he would be willing to revoke their taxpayer funding (along with funding for PBS).<\/p>\n

However, he noted that it will ultimately come down to having the votes in Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve got to build consensus to have the votes to do that,” he said. \u201cNow, some of this will be done by executive order out of the White House. He has a broad authority to do a lot of that. But where Congress is involved, that\u2019s where it takes the hard work of legislating and getting everybody on the same page. So there\u2019ll be lots of ideas that come out. We don\u2019t want to put too many of it out right now, okay, but this is part of that preparing the playbook to unleash and unroll in January.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When asked if spending for both Planned Parenthood and PBS would have their spending axed, Speaker Mike Johnson says “I would like to, that’s for sure.” pic.twitter.com\/Ys22UQb9al<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n