Maine Family Planning Group Denied Pause on Medicaid Cuts (1)

The Trump administration can withhold federal Medicaid reimbursements to a major family care provider in Maine under a federal judge’s order Monday denying a request to pause an embattled provision in congressional Republicans’ tax and spending law.

Maine Family Planning, a network of 18 reproductive health-care clinics, failed to adequately demonstrate it’s likely to succeed on its claim that the spending law’s one-year pause on Medicaid reimbursements to centers that offer abortion care unconstitutionally targets some reproductive health centers, Judge Lance E. Walker of the US District Court for the District of Maine wrote in his order denying the provider’s ...