{"id":2351,"date":"2020-01-29T10:30:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2020-01-29T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:10:09","slug":"president-trump-and-governor-newsom-spar-over-federal-funding-cuts-related-to-abortion-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351","title":{"rendered":"President Trump and Governor Newsom Spar over Federal Funding Cuts Related to Abortion Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written by Michael Palomba<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Trump recently threatened to cut some federal funding to California over the state&#8217;s requirement that mandates private insurers cover abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trump administration says that the requirement violates a federal ban on discriminating against health care entities that refuse to cover abortion services or refer patients for the procedure when taxpayer dollars are involved. The Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) has given the state 30 days to comply or accept the loss of an unspecified amount of funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HHS Director of the Office for Civil Rights Roger Severino said, \u201c[California] must stop forcing people of goodwill to subsidize the taking of human life.\u201d He also said that 28,000 Californias that had abortion-free plans have lost that option due to the requirement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Governor Gavin Newsom was not pleased by the announcement. He claimed Trump would be taking billions from kids, seniors, the poor, and the sick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Trump administration would rather rile up its base to score cheap political points and risk access to care for millions than do what\u2019s right,&#8221; he said. &#8220;California will continue to protect a woman\u2019s right to choose, and we won&#8217;t back down from defending reproductive freedom for everybody \u2014 full stop.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He then tweeted about the situation:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump is threatening to take away ALL OF OUR HEALTHCARE FUNDING.<\/p>\n<p>TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>10 MILLION PEOPLE who are:<br \/>poor<br \/>sick<br \/>kids<br \/>seniors<br \/>families<br \/>will LOSE their healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>And yet you call yourself \u201cpro-life\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a>?? You sicken me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pXdmeZwbSm\">https:\/\/t.co\/pXdmeZwbSm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1220790816907489281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It seems odd that Newsom would tweet \u201cTrump is threatening to take away ALL OF OUR HEALTHCARE FUNDING,\u201d considering that the amount of funding that would be cut has not been specified. It&#8217;s also misleading to say that \u201ckids, seniors, the poor and the sick\u201d would be the ones hurt by the funding cut. The funding cut is not directed at any specific groups, and California controls how its funds are distributed and used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, it appears that Mr. Newsom has already decided what groups will take the fall in honor of the pro-choice movement. In addition, rather than taking responsibility for his state violating federal policies, he is fear-mongering and playing the blame game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadly, this is typical behavior for the governor.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this year the Trump administration called out Mr. Newsom for the state&#8217;s poor forest management and its effect on the wildfires. Rather than taking responsibility for the state&#8217;s faults and committing to do better, he claimed Trump was \u201cconducting a full on assault against the antidotes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/victorpanlilio\/258793063\/in\/photolist-oSoan-dNZzUF-dNZzvt-dNZw4X-hd7pBd-oSnKK-5UUnBW-hd7ZaH-dP6cGh-dP6hnw-5N2pTf-hd8bfZ-oSnza-dP6gHq-dNZDTR-dNZvGP-dNZACp-5UUnpJ-oSnKd-dP6h4m-hd7qUb-oSo3X-dNZuYi-5UUnDm-dNZBN6-dNZzaa-oSo9G-oSnLb-dP67Jj-dP6exm-oSnB8-dNZBt8-abuqWc-oSnXG-oSnBM-dNZGSV-oSnFx-oSnD7-oSnAh-oSnWQ-q5kcrk-95gq9-NKoF7q-oSnGm-hd6CFk-hd88VD-hd6Czj-5UUnxs-oSnPE-oSnNV\">Photo by Victor Panlilio via Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Michael Palomba President Trump recently threatened to cut some federal funding to California over the state&#8217;s requirement that mandates private insurers cover abortion. The Trump administration says that the requirement violates a federal ban on discriminating against health care entities that refuse to cover abortion services or refer patients for the procedure when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Trump and Governor Newsom Spar over Federal Funding Cuts Related to Abortion Coverage - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Trump and Governor Newsom Spar over Federal Funding Cuts Related to Abortion Coverage - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by Michael Palomba President Trump recently threatened to cut some federal funding to California over the state&#8217;s requirement that mandates private insurers cover abortion. The Trump administration says that the requirement violates a federal ban on discriminating against health care entities that refuse to cover abortion services or refer patients for the procedure when...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-29T17:30:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-29T21:10:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Abortion.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"San Diego News Desk\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Logo-SanDiegoNewsDesk-Article.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Logo-SanDiegoNewsDesk-Article.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"San Diego News Desk\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/\",\"name\":\"San Diego News Desk\",\"description\":\"Your Source for News in San Diego\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Abortion.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Abortion.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":720},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351\",\"name\":\"President Trump and Governor Newsom Spar over Federal Funding Cuts Related to Abortion Coverage - San Diego News Desk\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-29T17:30:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-29T21:10:09+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"President Trump and Governor Newsom Spar over Federal Funding Cuts Related to Abortion Coverage\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351#webpage\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f5bed4fc07270caa9fa05a8b26be4751\"},\"headline\":\"President Trump and Governor Newsom Spar over Federal Funding Cuts Related to Abortion Coverage\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-29T17:30:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-29T21:10:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351#webpage\"},\"wordCount\":405,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2351#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Abortion.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f5bed4fc07270caa9fa05a8b26be4751\",\"name\":\"San Diego News Desk\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/05062ed7eb31bfe5ee9233a235e7d2e2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/05062ed7eb31bfe5ee9233a235e7d2e2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"San Diego News Desk\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?author=3\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}