President Trump's budget bill has caused Planned Parenthood to close five clinics in California and lay off staff. Clinics in Gilroy, South San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, and Madera are closing, while four in San Jose remain open. The organization is discontinuing three critical services across remaining sites and laid off 120 staff members, including 62 from closed clinics. A court temporarily blocked efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, but its staff remains cautious about future funding for Medicaid and reproductive health care services as they plan a sustainable operational model.
President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" prohibited Medicaid reimbursements to large nonprofit health care organizations that provide abortion care, which Planned Parenthood describes as a "back-door ban on abortion."
Despite this legal victory, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte doesn't believe federal funding for Medicaid and for sexual and reproductive health care will be available in the future.
With 3.5 years remaining of the Trump administration, Planned Parenthood is strategically planning for a sustainable business model that will keep as many doors open as possible without the security of federal funding.
The ripple effect of President Trump's budget bill has cascaded into Planned Parenthood closing five clinics in California and laying off staff in other locations.
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