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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Whittle

Maine clinics hope to get blocked Medicaid funds restored as they sue Trump administration over cuts

Defunding Abortion Providers - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A network of clinics that provides health care in Maine is expected to ask a judge Thursday to restore its Medicaid funding while it fights a Trump administration effort to keep federal money from going to abortion providers.

President Donald Trump's policy and tax bill, known as the “ big beautiful bill,” blocked Medicaid money from flowing to Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider. The parameters in the bill also stopped funding from reaching Maine Family Planning, a much smaller provider that offers health care services in one of the poorest and most rural states in the Northeast.

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