House Speaker Mike Johnson Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Defund Planned Parenthood

House Speaker Mike Johnson is planning a rare fourth reconciliation package to defund Planned Parenthood, according to sources, but it is unclear if he can succeed.The 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunded Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, for one year, but that provision expired on July 4, 2026. Pro-life members pushed for extensions of the defunding provision in both reconciliation 2.0 and 3.0 bills, but both efforts were unsuccessful. The Senate’s process of recon