Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics regained access to Medicaid funding on Saturday after a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, defunding the organizations, expired.

The provision depriving Planned Parenthood was touted as a major victory for the anti-abortion movement when the bill was signed on July 4, 2025, but, due to Senate rules, the defunding only lasted for one year, and Congress failed to renew it before its summer recess.

While this means that Planned Parenthood, Health Imperatives in Massachusetts, and Maine Family Planning can once again bill Medicaid for non-abortion-related healthcare, it doesn’t reverse the damage caused by a year-long lack of access to funds totaling more than $800 million per year for Planned Parenthood alone.

“Tens of thousands of patients have been denied access to services like cancer screenings, birth control, and STI testing and treatment. These are things that just can’t be undone,” Nora Walsh-DeVries, vice president of political and legislative affairs at Planned Parenthood Action Fund, told The Hill.

In a report published July 1, Planned Parenthood and Planned Parenthood Action Fund said that the defunding had led to the closure of almost 30 health centers, two-thirds of which were in rural areas, or locations that had a shortage of medical services or healthcare professionals. In addition, all of the closed centers were in “contraceptive deserts.” Overall, the number of Medicaid visits to the organization decreased by 25% compared with the year before.

“By deliberately targeting Planned Parenthood, President [Donald] Trump and his allies in Congress worsened a public health crisis, making it harder for people to get the essential and lifesaving care they needed at their trusted provider,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement.

Olivia Pennington, a spokesperson for Maine Family Planning, told NPR, “It’s been devastating to see this defund and to see the impacts that it’s had across the nation.”

As Walsh-DeVries further told The Hill, “I think it’s just really clear that patients have totally borne the cost of this politically motivated attack on care.”

Despite the restoration of funding, uncertainty lingers. Walsh-DeVries said that it wasn’t clear how clinics could obtain the restored funds, and states can now block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood on their own, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling last year. To date, 13 states have blocked or tried to block funds.

What’s more, conservative and anti-abortion advocates have expressed outrage at Congress’ failure to extend the funding ban and are determined to pressure it to do so via a reconciliation bill.

“This failure must be corrected immediately. President Trump and Congress must act as fast as possible to restore and extend the defunding of Planned Parenthood and every organization that commits abortion,” Lila Rose, founder and president of anti-abortion group Live Action, said in a statement.

However, 65% of Americans oppose congressional efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, according to polling by the organization, and it is unclear if Republicans as a whole have the political will to renew the ban ahead of the midterm elections. Planned Parenthood Action Fund is currently mobilizing to unseat House republicans who voted for the ban last year.

“We have to really continue to do the work that we’re doing to make this as politically toxic as possible,” Walsh-DeVries told Politico.

McGill Johnson affirmed: “Anti-abortion lawmakers are trying to make ‘defund’ permanent because Planned Parenthood health centers provide abortion care where it’s legal. They are willing to sacrifice the lives and health of people across the country if it gets them closer to their goal of banning abortion everywhere and shutting down Planned Parenthood.”

She continued: “We’re in a fight for survival—not just for Planned Parenthood health centers, but for everyone to get high-quality, affordable healthcare from their trusted provider. And know this: Planned Parenthood will never stop fighting to ensure everyone can get the care they need.”

The Supreme Court surprised a legal expert last week by rejecting an application from one of President Donald Trump's sordid allies.

Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who has faced extensive allegations of sexual misconduct, appealed to the Supreme Court to reinstate a more than $8 million judgment he was awarded from a lower court that was later vacated by the 11th Circuit in a defamation case. The judgment arose from a lawsuit against a political group that accused Moore of soliciting sex from a minor while at a shopping mall many years ago.

Trump previously endorsed Moore in the 2017 Alabama special election against Democrat Doug Jones for the seat vacated by former Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) after Sessions was nominated as Trump's first Attorney General.

Attorney Shant Karnikian was astounded by the Supreme Court's decision and reacted to it on a new episode of the podcast he co-hosts with attorney Brian Kabateck, "Civil Action."

Karnikian pointed out two ironic aspects of the case. First, the application to the Supreme Court was denied by Justice Clarence Thomas, who handles appeals from the 11th Circuit. Karnikian noted that Thomas "is not the most liberal person" and seemed to be siding with victims of sexual misconduct in the case.

Karnikian also found it ironic that Moore is appealing his case at a time when he is running a conservative organization called The Foundation for Moral Law.

"I wonder what people like this, how they feel about people like Trump and all of his many transgressions, for lack of a better term," Karnikian said.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, got a quick history lesson on Sunday after he made what some described as an "embarrassing" claim about an old English pub.

DeSantis reshared a post on X from an account named "No Context Brits" that contained a picture of The Old Ferry Boat Inn, a pub in Hollywell that was allegedly established in the year 560. The post reads, "America is 250 years old. This pub is 1,466 years old."

DeSantis felt the need to chime in, writing, "And if it wasn’t for America, the insignia on the pub would be written in German."

The quizzical comment drew swift backlash, including from some members of DeSantis's party.

A Community Note was attached to DeSantis's post that pointed to multiple factual inaccuracies.

" Germany lost the Battle of Britain in 1940 — before the US joined the war. There was no risk of Britain being invaded after this time," the note reads in part.

"Hitler lacked the resources to establish the air superiority that was the prerequisite of a successful crossing of the English Channel," it added.

Conservative columnist David French of The New York Times also couldn't resist the opportunity to dunk on DeSantis.

"This is embarrassing from DeSantis. Britain stood alone, defending the free world, while we were on the sidelines, crippled by isolationism," French wrote on X. "And that's after Britain took the most horrific casualties confronting Imperial Germany in World War I."