In an opinion piece published on Wednesday (Nov. 20) by The Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy shared that their new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to target the government’s funding of Planned Parenthood.
Earlier this month, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he appointed Musk and Ramaswamy to lead DOGE, a new department Trump will create after taking office. Trump said that DOGE will advise his administration in its pursuit to “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies,” actions Trump claims are “essential to the ‘Save America’ movement.”
Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Ramaswamy is the founder of the pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences and recently ran for president of the United States as a Republican. He ended his campaign in January and endorsed Trump.
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Trump has described DOGE as an agency that will “provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government [that has] never [been] seen before.”
Trump has given Musk and Ramaswamy a deadline of July 4, 2026, to complete the task DOGE has been given.
DOGE announced on Wednesday that one of the ways it plans to reduce spending is to cut off government funding to “groups like Planned Parenthood.”
Planned Parenthood, a non-profit organization founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916, is the America’s largest provider of reproductive health services and abortions. According to Planned Parenthood’s 2022-2023 annual report, the organization performed 392,715 abortions during that time span. This was a 5% increase from the previous year and a 20% increase from the prior 10 reports.
Abortions make up over 97% of Planned Parenthood’s services.
Planned Parenthood reported over $2 billion in income for 2022-23, $699.3 million of which came from taxpayer funding through the means of Government Health Services reimbursements and grants. The Charlotte Lozier Institute noted that taxpayer funding given to Planned Parenthood has increased by 46% since 2010.
DOGE Aims To Cut Planned Parenthood’s Taxpayer Funding
Musk and Ramaswamy shared in their op-ed that they plan to follow the “Supreme Court’s guidance” in reversing a “decadeslong executive power grab.”
One way they plan to so, they said, is focusing on “delivering cost savings for taxpayers.” The DOGE leaders continued, “Skeptics question how much federal spending DOGE can tame through executive action alone. They point to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress.”
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