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Senate panel votes to reverse Mexico City Policy, signaling support for global family-planning assistance

Overseas nonprofits working in maternal health could have funding jeopardized by the expanded Mexico City Policy.

WASHINGTON — In a move likely to prove only symbolic, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted on Thursday to overturn the Mexico City Policy, which President Trump announced in January he would reinstate and which the State Department formalized in May.

The policy, put in place by Republican presidents

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