House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said he would “like to cut” funding to abortion giants Planned Parenthood and PBS once President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.
In an appearance on fox news Stories with Martha McCallum Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that defunding Planned Parenthood and PBS would depend on Parliament being able to “build a deal to get the votes to do it”.
“Right now, some of this is going to be done by executive order from the White House. He has broad authority to do a lot of that. It's going to take a lot of effort to get people on the same page,” Johnson said. “So there will be a lot of ideas. I don't want to reveal too much right now, but this is part of the preparation for the playbook that will be published in January.”
Mr Johnson also touted the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, which he said would focus on eliminating wasteful government spending.
“Martha, I think there is a generational opportunity here to create real change in the administrative state, in the deep state. We want to carry the torch to the regulatory state. I think what Elon and Vivec have in mind can help us in that regard,” Johnson said.
Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in a recent op-ed: wall street journal They said they would cut funding to “progressive organizations like Planned Parenthood.”
“…DOGE estimates that more than $500 billion annually is not authorized by Congress or is used in ways not intended by Congress, consisting of $535 million annually to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion in subsidies to public broadcasting. Help end federal overspending by targeting federal spending. “We have donated nearly $300 million from international organizations to progressive organizations like Planned Parenthood,” they wrote.
Family Planning 2023 Annual Report reveal Taxpayer funding in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements amounted to $699.3 million, accounting for 34 percent of the family planning system's total revenue.
Taxpayer funds for Planned Parenthood Fund are increased 43% increase since 2010; According to According to analysis by the pro-life Charlotte Rozier Institute. The institute notes that taxpayer funding of the family planning system is reported by its affiliates, and that information lags behind the national secretariat and covers the financial year ending in 2022. did.
Planned Parenthood also reported $997.5 million in contributions from private donors, a 44% increase from its previous report. In total, the abortion giants reported approximately $2.1 billion in revenue and a net worth of more than $2.5 billion.
According to the same report, family planning systems performed 392,716 abortions in 2021-2022, an increase of 5% from the previous year and compared to the previous 10 reports. It is said to have increased by 20%. Total services decreased by 17%.
“In 2021-2022, abortions accounted for 97.1 per cent of pregnancy resolution services in family planning systems, while prenatal services, miscarriage care, and adoption referrals accounted for only 1.6 per cent (6,316 cases) and 0.9 per cent (6,316). 3,604 cases) and 0.4 percent (1,721 cases),” according to the institute's analysis.
At the same time, the American Life League Planned Parenthood STOPP International 2023 Report on CEO Compensation was released. showusing the most recent data available, total compensation paid to CEOs of all affiliates of family planning plans increased by 26.3% from $13.3 million in 2015 to $16.8 million in 2020.
Average compensation for family planning plan CEOs increased from $237,999 in 2015 to $317,564 in 2020, a 33.4 percent increase over five years, according to the report.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her at @thekat_Hamilton.
