WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Angus King (I-ME) led 36 colleagues in sending a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., demanding that HHS take immediate action to protect Americans' uninterrupted access to comprehensive family planning and services by awarding a one-year full funding extension for all current Title X grantees.
Last year, the Trump Administration withheld millions (https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/title-x-grantees-and-clinics-affected-by-the-trump-administrations-funding-freeze/) in funding from almost one in five Title X grantees for months, placing over 840,00...