Everyone should be able to get birth control, cancer screenings and STI testing close to home, whatever they earn. For millions of people with low incomes, Title X is how that happens. The program served 2.8 million people in 2023.
Its funding has been anything but steady. On April 1, 2025, the administration withheld $65.8 million from 16 of the 86 Title X grants, and the money wasn't restored until December 2025. The president's 2026 budget request would have eliminated the program's $286 million altogether. Congress kept that money in the final 2026 spending bill, and that decision kept clinics open.
Now the 2027 budget is being written. A clinic can't hire a nurse or keep evening hours when it doesn't know whether its grant will survive the year.
Please fund Title X at no less than this year's $286 million in the 2027 budget, so people can keep getting birth control and cancer screenings close to home.