The Trump administration is slamming a Letitia James-led effort to challenge the defunding of Planned Parenthood, assailing the effort of Democrat attorneys general to “undermine state flexibility.”
James, the New York attorney general, is leading a legal challenge against a key provision of the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act, accusing the Trump administration of unconstitutional defunding of Planned Parenthood.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, James joined 21 other Democrat attorneys general and Pennsylvania in contesting a new Medicaid restrictions included in the bill, a sweeping law signed by President Donald Trump on July 4. The provision at the heart of the lawsuit bars Medicaid dollars from going to nonprofit clinics that receive substantial Medicaid funds and provide abortion services — criteria that James and her allies argue is clearly aimed at Planned Parenthood.
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