Pro-life groups are lobbying the White House and Republicans to include the Planned Parenthood-related proposal in this year’s reconciliation bill.

Republican lawmakers are considering including a proposal to defund Planned Parenthood in this year’s reconciliation package, a move that would prohibit the organization from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for the non-abortion services it provides.

But a handful of House Republican centrists are reportedly voicing opposition to the proposal behind closed doors. As of this week, it remains unclear whether where the White House stands on the idea, and whether President Donald Trump will push back against centrist Republican lawmakers’ opposition to a longstanding conservative goal.

“I don’t know yet. I have to see because you just told me that for the first time,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, responding to a question from National Review about his reaction to the moderate lawmakers’ reported opposition to the proposal. “We’ll work something out.”

Republican lawmakers are exploring legislative language that would strip Medicaid reimbursement eligibility from certain family planning entities that provide abortion services. The move is part of a broader effort to find enough spending cuts to fund this year’s tax portion of the president’s “one big, beautiful bill” ahead of December 2025, when certain provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are set to expire.

Pro-life groups are lobbying the White House and Republican lawmakers to include the Planned Parenthood-related proposal in this year’s reconciliation bill. While the Hyde Amendment technically prohibits federal taxpayer-funded abortions, pro-life groups say that Medicaid reimbursements effectively Planned Parenthood’s massive abortion operation by covering unrelated costs.

But any proposed legislative changes to Medicaid will be tricky, given the Senate’s Byrd Rule prohibition on making major cuts to the entitlement program through reconciliation, a budget process that allows lawmakers to skirt the upper chamber’s 60-vote threshold for passing legislation. Any package that House Republicans send to the Senate will be scrutinized by the upper chamber, which is the ultimate arbiter in budget-related legislative maneuvers.

According to NOTUS, which first reported the centrist opposition to the proposal, several moderate Republicans pushed back against the proposal during a closed-door meeting with House GOP leadership this week.

But not all centrist Republicans are opposed to the proposal. “I don’t like giving taxpayer money to organizations that do abortions,” Representative Don Bacon (R., Neb.), a frequent Trump critic who represents a district Kamala Harris won in 2024, told National Review on Wednesday. “Planned Parenthood is a massive abortion provider. They also are very political, so giving them taxpayer money and then they turn around and attack us.”