The Trump administration is set to begin withholding certain federal funds from Planned Parenthood starting Tuesday, which may complicate access to birth control, cancer screenings, and reproductive health care for Americans, according to a press release from the organization. 

The press release stated that on Monday night, nine Planned Parenthood affiliates were informed about the administration’s intention to stop Title X funding as of April 1. 

Neither the White House nor the Department of Health and Human Services have responded to requests for comment from The Hill. 

Title X, established in the 1970s, is the sole federal initiative in the United States aimed at providing affordable birth control and sexual and reproductive health services to low-income individuals. 

In 2023, the program supported almost 4,000 clinics serving close to 2.8 million people, according to health advocacy nonprofit KFF.  

That year, Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers provided more than 5 million sexually transmitted infection services, over 2 million birth control services and more than 400,000 cancer screening and prevention services, according to the organization.  

Reproductive rights advocates have been worried that President Donald Trump would restrict Title X funding as he did during his first term. In 2019, the first Trump administration issued a rule that prohibited providers from receiving Title X funding if they mentioned abortion or referred patients for abortions. 

Planned Parenthood left the program because of the rule and re-entered it in 2021 after the Biden administration reversed it.  

“President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping health care access from people nationwide, and not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.  

“We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: People across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation’s STI crisis worsens.”