(National Catholic Register) A report published last month by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan research arm of Congress, found that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, spent $271 million in federal money from fiscal years 2016 to 2018, including money “received directly from federal agencies and funds passed through to the affiliates by nonfederal organizations.”
The 39 Planned Parenthood affiliates the June 22 report examined spent $88 million in 2016, $93 million in 2017 and $89 million in 2018. The funding seemed largely unaffected by the transition from the Obama administration to the Trump administration in 2017, as such funding is allocated years in advance and attempts to defund Planned Parenthood were largely unsuccessful during Trump’s term in office, with the exception of cutting off about $60 million annually in Title X family planning funds in 2019.