State Department Expands Mexico City Policy to Bar Abortion, DEI Aid

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 17

A Jan. 23, 2026 expansion now being finalized would block U.S. foreign assistance from subsidizing abortion and, more broadly, from backing gender and DEI equity programs.
The State Department is carrying out the change under the Mexico City Policy, extending a framework traditionally tied to abortion-related funding into diversity and gender-program restrictions.
The move would widen conditions on U.S. overseas aid, potentially affecting foreign organizations and programs that receive American assistance under the administration's new standards.