"We call on HHS to immediately award a one-year full funding extension to all current Title X grantees as the funding process cannot be effectively executed before their funding runs out on March 31."
"When someone's going in because they need birth control or cancer screenings or STI testing, everyday people aren't like, 'Thank goodness for Title X.' Despite the low-profile, Title X is incredibly important."
"What happened this year, for the first time in my experience and I've been working on this for 27 years that guidance never came out and an application never got released."
A coalition of 128 Democratic members of Congress, led by the House Democratic Women's Caucus and Reproductive Freedom Caucus, sent a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. requesting immediate one-year funding extensions for all current Title X grantees. Title X, established by President Nixon in 1970, provides free birth control, cancer screenings, and sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment to uninsured and low-income patients through public health departments and nonprofit clinics nationwide. The program does not fund abortion care. A funding crisis looms as grants expire March 31, with no applications released this year for the first time in 27 years, preventing the normal annual budget and data submission process from occurring before the deadline.
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