•    "Last Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee approved a State Department and foreign operations appropriations bill for fiscal year (FY) 2025 that includes a massive proposed funding cut for bilateral and multilateral family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) programs and attaches a litany of anti-sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) restrictions, most notably a legislative codification of an expanded version of the Global Gag Rule (GGR) and a prohibition on any U.S. contributions to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The committee-approved bill (H.R. 8771), adopted on a straight party-line vote on June 12, is entirely predictable in duplicating the identical lines of attack directed at global SRHR activities by Republicans in last year’s House FY 2024 bill." Source: Craig Lasher, Senior Fellow at Population Action International

•    "The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 8771… Rather than respecting their agreement and taking the opportunity to engage in a productive, bipartisan appropriations process to build on last year’s bills, House Republicans are again wasting time with partisan bills that would result in deep cuts to law enforcement, education, housing, healthcare, consumer safety, energy programs that lower utility bills and combat climate change, and essential nutrition services. The draft bills also include numerous, partisan policy provisions with devastating consequences including harming access to reproductive healthcare, threatening the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Americans, endangering marriage equality, hindering critical climate change initiatives, and preventing the Administration from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion… If the President were presented with H.R. 8771, he would veto it." Source: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget on behalf of Joe Biden