One provision of President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" barred funding for Planned Parenthood, America's largest abortion chain.

The effects of Trump's legislation became evident this week when five Planned Parenthood facilities in California had to shut down. 

Centers were run by Planned Parenthood Mar Monte

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the clinics were run by Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which is the organization's largest affiliate group.

Andrew Adams serves as chief of staff at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, and he told the Chronicle that the funding constraints are having a serious impact.

"It's just not sustainable," Adams was quoted as telling the newspaper. "We can’t keep our doors open if we continue doing that."

The move to defund Planned Parenthood has been met with legal challenges from members of Planned Parenthood, including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah.

Judge blocked defunding provision

Breitbart reported earlier this month that U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani granted their request for a temporary restraining order.

She instructed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to "take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed."

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Fox News noted that Talwani's order was met with opposition from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, who suggested that Talwani should be impeached.

"We have the best judicial system in the world, but it’s run by fallible, mortal humans. People make mistakes. But unless I’m missing something here, this wasn’t an honest mistake. This was a pretty egregious judicial usurpation of legislative power," he told the network.

DOJ expected to appeal ruling

Fox News noted last week that although Talwani initially offered no explanation for her order, she later stressed that it only applies to Planned Parenthood affiliates which either don't provide abortion services or get less than $800,000 annually in Medicaid reimbursements.

The network further pointed out how the Department of Justice (DOJ) is expected to appeal Talwani's ruling to the Fifth Circuit.

"Beyond the futility of the claims on the merits, Planned Parenthood fails to demonstrate imminent irreparable harm to justify an injunction, asserting only classically reparable economic injury and irrelevant potential harm to patients, who are third parties not before this Court," DOJ attorneys were quoted as arguing.