John,

The House Appropriations Committee has completed drafting their FY2025 funding bills and they represent direct attacks on critical programs and services for women, working families, low-income people, and more. One of the largest funding cuts is to the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies budget—including funding *elimination* for the Title X Family Planning program.

The Title X Family Planning Program was enacted in 1970 as part of the Public Health Service Act. The program provides funding grants to public and nonprofit agencies to use for family planning services—including prenatal care and delivery, information and non-direct counseling services related to pregnant people, infant care, foster care, and adoption.

The proposed House legislation funds the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies at $198.4 billion, a $24.6 billion—or 11%—cut from FY2024 levels. $390 million of those cuts are from eliminating the funding for the Title X Family Planning Program.¹

Millions of individuals and families across the country rely on Title X programs to plan their families and receive critical prenatal and postpartum care, screenings for sexually transmitted infections, and cancer screenings. This legislation hasn’t reached the full House floor for a vote, so there’s still time to stop it.

Click here to send a letter to your Representative and urge them to vote against these radical cuts to Title X.

Historically Title X funding has received bipartisan support—it was signed into law by former President Richard Nixon—but with right-wing extremists in the House who are determined to inflict their radical policy agenda on the American public, that bipartisan support for this commonsense legislation is gone.

Project 2025—the extremist, far right policy agenda—includes plans for radically changing Title X funding and how organizations are to use it:

“HHS (Health and Human Services) should require clinics it funds under Title X (family planning) to provide information to customers about the importance of marriage to family and personal well-being and refer them to available federal, state, and nonprofit marriage resources.”

Under Project 2025, marriage is only between one man and one woman—eliminating LGBTQ marriages and families.²

This is all part of a coordinated effort to strip rights away from women, LGBTQ people, and low-income people who rely on Title X programs. In 2021, 1.7 million people were served by Title X programs—85% were women, 83% had incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level and 36% were uninsured.³

As extremist as Project 2025 is, the House Appropriations bill’s total elimination of funding for family planning and health care goes even farther. With Black maternal mortality rates shamefully high, it must be unacceptable to eliminate funding that is needed for prenatal and postpartum health care.

Eliminating Title X funding does nothing but inflict suffering on the most marginalized and puts vital health services out of reach for the people who need them most. Join us in calling for the House to reject the attacks on Title X funding now.

Thank you for all you do,

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, CHN Action

¹ Summary of Republican Fiscal Year 2025 Bill
² Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise
³ Title X Family Planning Program