California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday that the cash-strapped state will be spending — “investing” — $140 million on Planned Parenthood abortion clinics to compensate for lost federal spending.

Under the Hyde Amendment, federal dollars cannot be used to fund abortions. However, Planned Parenthood had received federal funding for other purposes — money critics said was “fungible.”

President Donald Trump cut off all federal funding to Planned Parenthood under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed earlier this year. Planned Parenthood has failed, thus far, to reinstate funding through the courts.

So California, under Newsom’s vociferously pro-abortion administration, is stepping in to pay the bills.

Newsom said in a press statement on Thursday: “California is a reproductive

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