Documents newly obtained by the Oversight Project from the Small Business Administration show the Biden-Harris administration labeled communications about Covid-era loans to Planned Parenthood under the code word “Benghazi” in order to thwart Freedom of Information Act requests, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA) revealed today.
Planned Parenthood – America’s largest abortion business – collected approximately $90 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans meant to provide emergency relief for small businesses shut down, even though they were ineligible by law. In January 2026 under the leadership of Administrator Kelly Loeffler, the Small Business Administration opened a review of loans forgiven under Biden, requiring Planned Parenthood affiliates to provide documentation or be disqualified.
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Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report shows they ended the lives of more than 434,000 unborn babies in 2023-24, an increase of more than 32,000 from the previous year, while their taxpayer funding hit $832 million or nearly $2.3 million per day.
“Just when we think the Democrats’ extremism can’t get more shocking, we see the lengths they’ll go to in protecting the Big Abortion industry. They knew letting Planned Parenthood help itself to taxpayer-funded Covid loans was illegal – so they tried to cover their tracks using, of all things, the national horror of Benghazi,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “We thank Senator Joni Ernst, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler, and our allies in Congress for tirelessly pursuing truth, justice and restitution.
“As the clear Big Abortion industry leader, Planned Parenthood continues to break records for the number of unborn children’s lives taken in a single year, while real health care services like cancer screenings plummet. Women looking for help related to their pregnancy at Planned Parenthood are overwhelmingly sold an abortion instead of given prenatal care, miscarriage care, or help making an adoption plan. They have even been exposed by The New York Times for injuring women and providing horrifyingly substandard so-called ‘care’ while funneling tens of millions into political activism and endless lawfare.
“For the first time last year, under the exceptional leadership of House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Congress defunded Big Abortion businesses of over half a billion in Medicaid dollars in the Working Families Tax Cuts. But absent further action, that defunding measure expires this July 4. This is now a basic pro-life policy expectation and the GOP base overwhelmingly supports it. We urge Congress to stand strong and do everything in its power to pass a reconciliation bill that keeps Big Abortion defunded. Taxpayers should never be forced to fund the brutality of abortion.”
Three in four Republican primary voters support defunding Planned Parenthood, a Cygnal poll earlier this year found, and one-third would be less enthusiastic about voting in November and less willing to volunteer if GOP leaders abandon pro-life policies.
