Planned Parenthood’s network of clinics regains access to hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding this weekend after Republicans failed to pass an extension of the one-year defunding they passed last year in the One Big Beautiful Act, which took effect in July 2025. 

As a result, clinics across the country can again bill Medicaid “for reimbursement after providing non-abortion services, like birth control and screenings for sexually-transmitted infections, to low-income patients,” according to Politico.

This has drawn the ire of conservative lawmakers and activists for prioritizing other issues, such as immigration and military spending. They have been sending angry letters to Capitol Hill, picketed outside the Republican National Committee headquarters, and even pressured the White House to intervene. 

Leaders of the pro-life movement consider this a major blow to voters’ morale, even more so than the Trump administration’s inaction on abortion pills, since they see this as backsliding on something they had already won. 

While Republicans did push last year to make the defunding permanent or at least make it a decade-long defunding of Planned Parenthood, the Senate parliamentarian forced them to cut it back to a one-year measure, according to the outlet. 

That is why the leaders of the pro-life movement have pushed to have the parliamentarian fired.