Josh Hawley Just Called Out The Two Josh Hawley Just Called Out The Two Republicans Behind Planned Parenthood’s Comeback

Planned Parenthood collected hundreds of millions in Medicaid cash the same week America turned two hundred fifty.

Two Republican senators made sure that comeback money never stopped flowing in the first place.

Josh Hawley just called out exactly who handed Planned Parenthood that lifeline.

Two Senators Broke From Their Party To Save Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion provider, went a full year without access to federal money.

President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, and the law cut off Planned Parenthood's Medicaid reimbursements starting that month.

Republicans originally wrote the ban to last a decade before Senate leadership shortened it to twelve months just to get the bill passed.

That one year expired on July 4 while the country celebrated its 250th birthday.

Planned Parenthood clinics can now bill Medicaid again for birth control and other non-abortion services.

Sen. Josh Hawley tried to stop this exact outcome back in April.

He offered an amendment to extend the funding ban and Senate Republicans voted it down.

Only two Republicans sided against him.

Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska crossed party lines to help kill the extension.

Both senators have a long history of protecting Planned Parenthood from Republican defunding efforts.

Murkowski and Collins were the same two Republicans who broke ranks to defend Planned Parenthood's Medicaid status back in 2025 too.

That earlier effort fell eleven votes short of the sixty needed to advance, even with Collins and Murkowski's support.

Planned Parenthood shut down close to thirty clinics across the country in the year after the ban took hold.

More than 40,000 patients lost access to a clinic they used to depend on.

Kristan Hawkins had cautioned that missing the deadline would hand Planned Parenthood upwards of $600 million in federal money.

Congress failed to act.

California alone poured more than $230 million in state money into Planned Parenthood once the federal funding disappeared.

Blue states from New York to Illinois followed the same playbook while red states let the funding gap stand.

That gap shows which side actually wanted this fight to end and which side never did.

Live Action founder Lila Rose noted on July 4 that Planned Parenthood is responsible for more than 400,000 abortions every year.

Two Named Republicans Chose The Abortion Giant Over Their Own Voters

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser said "Defunding Big Abortion is now the default expectation of the pro-life movement."

Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins went further and gave every member of Congress an F grade.

She wrote online that "Congress must act, and the Trump Administration should permanently debar Planned Parenthood."

Hawley did not hide his frustration with his own party's leadership.

He told Politico that Republican leadership "was really taking the pro-life movement and pro-life voters for granted."

The Supreme Court's Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic ruling already lets red states cut Planned Parenthood out of their own Medicaid programs.

That ruling means the real fight has shifted to statehouses while Washington sits on its hands.

Texas already showed this playbook works, having pushed Planned Parenthood out of its own Medicaid program back in 2011, years before Washington ever tried.

Red state governors now have the tools to finish what Collins and Murkowski refused to finish in the Senate.

The Money And The Midterms

Planned Parenthood did not just get its money back this month.

It got a green light heading into November.

The group's political arm has already put money behind targeting House Republicans who voted to defund it last year, including Reps. David Schweikert of Arizona and Mike Lawler of New York.

Hawley is warning his own party that pro-life voters remember exactly who showed up and who walked away.

The midterms are four months out, and two Republican senators just handed Planned Parenthood its best comeback story of the year.

Collins and Murkowski will be on the ballot again soon enough, and so will the Republicans who let this slide.

Sources:

• Faith Miller, "Planned Parenthood's Money Spigot Turns On Again," The Daily Caller, July 6, 2026.
• "Anti-abortion movement rift with GOP deepens as Planned Parenthood funding resumes," Washington Examiner, July 6, 2026.
• "Conservatives push to renew Planned Parenthood ban," RSBN Network, July 5, 2026.
• "Murkowski, Collins Vote With Dems to Support Planned Parenthood," Newsmax, June 30, 2025.