More than 100 Republican members of Congress, including Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., asked the Government Accountability Office on Friday to investigate and report on the amount of federal funding that has been awarded to abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, over the past three years.

In a letter led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and House Pro-Life Caucus co-Chair Chris Smith, R-N.J., 81 House members and 31 senators noted the GAO has prepared several congressionally requested reports on federal funding for those organizations.

The letter comes days after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are leading President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that the department could cut nearly $300 million given to progressive groups such as Planned Parenthood.

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