Appeals panel allows Trump admin to strip Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood

A federal appeals court Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to enforce a provision of the new tax cut and spending law that will cut off Medicaid funding from some Planned Parenthood clinics. The Boston-based First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold a preliminary nationwide injunction issued in July by a lower-court judge that blocked the Trump administration from cutting funding to all Planned Parenthood affiliates. The lawsuit contests a provision in the new law that imposes a one-year ban on state Medicaid payments to health...