The Brief
A federal judge on Monday ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding.
This comes as Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, fights the Trump administration over efforts to defund the organization.
What does it mean?
Dig deeper:
The new order replaces a previous edict handed down by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston, Massachusetts, last week.
The backstory:
Talwani initially granted a preliminary injunction specifically blocking the government from cutting Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood members that didn’t provide abortion care or didn’t meet a threshold of at least $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in a given year.
In her Monday order, Talwani said that the court was "not enjo