Boston — A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump's administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue.

A federal judge in July ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed with Medicaid funding as the nation's largest abortion provider fights the administration's efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation.

Medicaid is a government health care program that serves millions of low-income and disabled Americans. Nearly half of Planned Parenthood's patients rely on Medicaid.

A provision in Mr. Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" instructed the federal government to end Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Me

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