Trump budget would codify expanded global gag rulehttps://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/04/06/trump-budget-would-codify-expanded-global-gag-rule/ 🔗Michael K. Lavers (6 April 2026)
The Trump-Vance administration's fiscal year 2027 budget would codify the expanded global gag rule and eliminate funding for LGBTQ-specific programs in global health initiatives.
"The budget would ensure no funding supports abortion, unfettered access to birth control, and also eliminates funding for circumcision and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer services to better focus funds on life-saving assistance," reads the proposed budget the White House released on April 3. "The United States should not pay for the world's birth control and therapy."
The proposed budget includes four examples of "eliminated activities."
In the last administration, PEPFAR funded health workers who performed over 21 abortions in Mozambique
Promoting reproductive health education and access to birth control and other harmful programs couched under 'family planning' in Ghana
A supply chain "control tower" to provide a "holistic commercial of the shelf solution" on the Office of
Population and Reproductive Health (PRH)
Promoting health equity and providing condoms and contraception in Kenya.
President Ronald Reagan in 1985 implemented the global gag rule, also known as the "Mexico City" policy, which bans U.S. foreign aid for groups that support abortion and/or offer abortion-related services.
Trump reinstated the rule during his first administration. The Biden-Harris administration shortly after it took office in January 2021 rescinded it.
The Trump-Vance White House earlier this year expanded the global gag rule to ban U.S. foreign aid for groups that promote "gender ideology." The expansion took effect on Feb. 26.
