Trump administration puts squeeze on Planned Parenthood with Title X abortion reforms

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Republicans have a long way to go in their bid to defund Planned Parenthood, but the Trump administration has leveraged a federal family-planning grant program to put the squeeze on the reproductive health care and abortion giant.

The Department of Health and Human Services trimmed its funding to Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates last week in its 2019 Title X grants, redirecting millions in grants to other health-care organizations, including for the first time the Obria Group, a pro-life pregnancy center based in Southern California.

Planned Parenthood affiliates were awarded $48.4 million over three years — a reduction of about $7 million from the previous round of multiyear grant awards — and four were zeroed out entirely, replaced by grants to state health departments in Hawaii, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin and Virginia.

That drop represents little more than a rounding error for PPFA, which reported $2.2 billion in revenues in its 2017-18 annual report, including $564 million in federal funding, but for pro-life advocates, the haircut sent the message that women seeking health care have plenty of choices.

“What it really does is it shows that Planned Parenthood can be defunded,” said Kristi Hamrick, spokeswoman for Students for Life of America. “It also shows that it’s a farce when the abortion lobby says that then women won’t receive health care. Lots of people don’t use Planned Parenthood.”

Planned Parenthood denounced the drop in its grant awards, arguing that stripping funding to its affiliates “puts health care at risk for more than 40,000 patients who rely on Planned Parenthood Title X health centers in 5 states.”

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/2/planned-parenthood-funding-squeezed-title-x-aborti/

Hatred of Christians and Christian states is the goal. Why isn’t this considered “hate speech”

California bans state-funded travel to South Carolina, bringing total to 10 states

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

The day may be coming when California public employees are permitted to travel on business only to blue states.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday added South Carolina to the growing list of states banned from state-sponsored travel, citing the Palmetto State’s 2018 budget bill allowing faith-based adoption and foster-care services to operate according to their religious beliefs.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/2/california-bans-state-funded-travel-south-carolina/

The First Step Act is being praised far and wide, POTUS and team are fulfilling a Promise. Van Jones Of CNN was recognized at the event yesterday

Actor Isaiah Washington slams Obama, praises Trump for criminal justice reform

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Actor Isaiah Washington tweeted praise for President Trump and criticism of former President Barack Obama after he visited the White House on Monday for an event celebrating the First Step Act.

Mr. Washington said the sweeping criminal justice reform legislation signed by Mr. Trump in December was the first step in ending mass incarceration. The former “Grey’s Anatomy” star added that he was never “given any support regarding Africa or the Black Agenda” during the Obama administration….

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/2/isaiah-washington-greys-anatomy-star-slams-obama-p/

Comey the Coward, I cant even believe he ran the FBI

Then again if he did nothing wrong why would he fear an investigation into the investigators?

It’s far more likely James Comey was integral to the Trump-Russia hoax that was in fact an attempted coup against a sitting president of the United States. He should be concerned!

Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/james-comey-now-fears-he-is-going-to-be-investigated-for-his-part-in-trump-russia-hoax/#fH5KMohWzRZpUMud.99

Via Politico:

Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump’s calls for a possible investigation into how special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry started, adding that it creates a troubling precedent.

During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Comey was asked about whether he feared possible counterinvestigations.

“I don’t fear it personally. I fear it as a citizen,” he said. “Right? Investigate what? Investigate that investigations were conducted? What would be the crime you’d be investigating? So it’s a terrible cycle to start.”

Several days after Attorney General William Barr released his summary of Mueller’s report, Trump and his team have called for investigations into how the probe began.

“Hopefully, somebody is going to look at the other side,” Trump told reporters late last month. The president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has also made similar statements.

On Tuesday, Trump continued to advocate for an examination of how the FBI and Mueller investigations began.

“I hope they now go and take a look at the origins of the investigation, the beginnings of the investigation,” the president told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. “You look at the origin of the investigation, where it started, how it started, who started it.”

Whether it‘s [former FBI Deputy Cirector Andrew] McCabe or Comey or a lot of them, where does it go? How high up in the White House did it go?“ Trump continued, calling on reporters to investigate the origins of Mueller‘s probe, even dangling the prospect of a Pulitzer Prize to journalists in the room.

Barr, in his four-page summary, wrote that Mueller did not find a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 presidential election. In addition, Barr wrote that Mueller did not fully exonerate Trump in an obstruction of justice inquiry, but the attorney general added that he did not believe there was enough evidence to bring charges on the matter.

Comey condemned the president’s rhetoric of “calling for the locking up of his political opponents, including people like me.”

“It will just be more of that dangerous step, and would I hope, although he’ll continue to disappoint me, the Republicans would finally stand up and say that kind of thing,” he said.

The former FBI director, however, maintained that he would be willing to answer questions if an investigation were opened.

“Me, personally, ask me questions,” Comey said. “Go ahead. I would like to answer them in the daylight, if I could.”

I Bet The Media Is Gonna Be Running A Lot More Of These Articles. It’s Called Duck and Cover

BREAKING: USA Today Calls For Investigation Into Obama-Era Deep State Election Manipulation

Posted on April 2, 2019 by DCWhispers

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Interesting indeed! Here is the left-leaning USA Today finally calling for an accounting of Obama-era officials, (including Mr. Obama himself) and the roles they played in what became the 2+ year-long, multi-million dollar waste of time known as the Mueller investigation that saw the U.S. intelligence agencies politically weaponized to alter the Election Day outcome. Treason, sedition, intimidation, corruption, you name it they seemingly did it all…

Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/breaking-usa-today-calls-for-investigation-into-obama-era-deep-state-election-manipulation/#RsqsEHXvAjUmCxAk.99

Neon On posting this for you since you wrote such a great in depth article on this tool. I appreciate your research

BY: Nic Rowan April 3, 2019 5:00 am

Shortly after South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg took office in 2012, he made what he calls his "first serious mistake as mayor."

Federal investigators informed the 29-year-old mayor in January 2012 that they were investigating South Bend police chief Darryl Boykins in a possible wiretapping scandal. Boykins had served in the police force since 1984 and in 2007 had become the first black man in South Bend to head the force. Furthermore, he was a well-respected figure in the community, described by his predecessor, Police Chief Thomas Fautz, as a man who "is fair and professional, and strongly believes in accountability." Buttigieg kept the FBI information to himself.

But two months later, Buttigieg decided to ask for Boykins's resignation, which the police chief promptly turned in.

"I respect Chief Boykins's decision to resign," the mayor said in the statement released to the public, "and am grateful for his years of dedicated service to our community."

The backlash was immediate. South Bend Common Council members expressed dissatisfaction at Buttigieg's management style, wondering aloud why the mayor had not informed them before going public with his announcement.

"To learn that Mayor Pete Buttigieg has known about a federal investigation taking place within the South Bend Police Department since January 2012 is truly disturbing, especially since … [the mayor] did not inform anyone on the South Bend Common Council about the investigation," council member Oliver Davis told the South Bend Tribune. "This shows a tremendous lack of respect and poor communication between the city’s administration and the South Bend Common Council."….

https://freebeacon.com/politics/mayor-petes-first-serious-mistake/

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That pic always creeps me out, call an exorcist