Trump Administration Global Health Policy

Vice President J.D. Vance announced at the Jan. 23 March for Life rally that the administration has expanded the Mexico City policy to bar U.S. funding not only to groups that discuss or provide abortions but also to any foreign or international organizations that “promote gender ideology” or diversity, equity and inclusion — a change that explicitly reaches large cross‑border bodies such as U.N. agencies. Administration officials say the revision extends the policy’s reach from roughly $8 billion in global‑health funds to more than $30 billion in U.S. foreign assistance overall, drawing warnings from groups like the Council for Global Equality that it will chill services for marginalized people (including transgender people) and echoing prior impacts when MSI Reproductive Choices lost $15 million and curtailed programs that left an estimated 2.6 million women without reproductive care.