For the past four years, America has suffered a “winter of discontent” thanks to the Biden administration who peddled every measure of iniquity, irrationality, and imbecility one could conceive. Everything from a denial of biological and chromosomal reality, to marshalling every federal resource to ensure Abortion, Inc. can continue its taxpayer-subsidized genocidal slaughter of innocent children in the womb, was an everyday occurrence in that cold and morally frozen season. 

Much of this dark season was centered on death. Specifically, in July 2022, Biden signed an executive order saying he would use every federal tool available to protect abortion. Of the many immoral snowfalls in the winter of Biden’s blizzards was his efforts to ensure that Planned Parenthood continued to receive its multibillion-dollar taxpayer subsidy. 

In fact, a 2022 report from Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) found that Planned Parenthood had received $1.53 billion from Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP reimbursement, and received approximately $250 million more from other government programs funded by the taxpayers. In his outgoing budget request — a document not worth the paper it is written on — Biden only sought to increase that windfall to Abortion, Inc. by drastically increasing Title X funding for abortion businesses. 

But this winter of discontent is now thawing and giving way to a warm and life-affirming season marked by common sense and a return to reality. 

Telling Planned Parenthood ‘You’re Fired’

Amidst this past dark season, there were bright spots that foreshadowed the summer to come. South Carolina stood strong and made the commonsense decision to exclude Planned Parenthood’s abortion facilities from its Medicaid qualified-provider program, stating that any expenditure of government funds to abortion businesses is a taxpayer subsidy for Planned Parenthood. Of course, it is. 

That decision was predictably challenged by Planned Parenthood, who has a vested interest in ensuring that the government gravy train does not run out. The loss of $1.53 billion in revenue would be crippling. South Carolina’s decision to cease subsidizing Abortion, Inc. is currently pending before the Supreme Court of the United States in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.

Instead of the predictable position of death and discontent we had come to expect from the last chilling four years, Americans received a warm breeze of truth and sunrays of sanity from the Trump administration.

On February 10, the Trump administration filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing that, not only does South Carolina have the right to exclude Planned Parenthood, but that Planned Parenthood has no right to challenge South Carolina’s decision to exclude it from Medicaid reimbursement programs.

Though the brief is based, in large measure, on a technical discussion about whether the Civil Rights Act permits plaintiffs to challenge Spending Clause legislation, the unmistakable conclusion from the Trump administration’s argument is simple: South Carolina is well within its right to determine that these merchants of death are “unqualified” to receive a copper penny of taxpayer dollars.

In essence, President Trump’s position is that every state has the right to tell Planned Parenthood: “You’re fired.” 

Should the Supreme Court adopt South Carolina and President Trump’s position, which it should, Planned Parenthood stands to lose around $1.53 billion annually when other states follow South Carolina’s bold lead.

Countless lives would be saved every day by starving Planned Parenthood of taxpayer-funded subsidies. 

Ending the Gender Mutilation Crusade

Supporting states’ rights to defund Planned Parenthood and its parasitic relationship to American taxpayers was not the only priority in melting Biden’s winter. 

Three days before filing the Medina brief, President Trump’s administration delivered a wholesale reversal of Biden’s gender mutilation crusade. On February 7, the Trump Justice Department notified the Supreme Court, in United States v. Skrmetti, that the United States no longer recognizes Biden’s unconscionable, irrational, and untenable position that a state violates the Equal Protection Clause by prohibiting doctors from carrying out radical, life-altering gender mutilation surgeries on minors. 

During the Biden administration, the United States had challenged Kentucky and Tennessee’s commonsense protection for minors, arguing that such legislation somehow violated a minor’s constitutional rights.

The United States’ position is that protecting children from doctors and parents treating them and their God-given biological reality as collateral damages in an ideological war is not only perfectly constitutional — it is warranted, necessary, and appropriate.

Though it has only been a month, the Trump administration’s Supreme Court record has already restored sanity to the United States’s positions.

Just the Beginning of America’s Newfound ‘Glorious Summer’

Protecting life by starving the abortion beast of government funding and protecting minors from life-altering gender mutilation is not a bad start to a new season. 

And that is just the Trump administration’s Supreme Court record. It says nothing of the clemencies and pardons President Trump has issued to pro-life heroes, or the executive orders protecting women in sports, recognizing the reality that there are only two genders, ending radical DEI garbage, eradicating anti-Christian bias in the federal government, and establishing a religious freedom task force.

The list could go on and on, and we’re just now at the one-month mark of the Trump administration.

Indeed, in the words of William Shakespeare, spoken by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, “All the clouds that lour’d upon our house, In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths.”

And finally, “Gone is the winter of our discontent, Made glorious summer by this [Son] of [New] York.”

Daniel Schmid is a constitutional attorney and the associate vice president of Legal Affairs with Liberty Counsel.