Guttmacher Analyst: White House Can’t Unilaterally Cut Title X Funding

A memo reportedly leaked from the White House Thursday (Oct. 19) as a “policy wish-list” states that Title X funding “should be cut in half at least” and the savings could be used to fund child care programs or “new fertility awareness programs for adolescents.” However, a policy expert from the Guttmacher Institute notes that no administration has unilateral authority to defund a program of its congressionally appropriated money. Kinsey Hasstedt of the Guttmacher Institute said the memo shows the...