Stephen Billy

As Senior Advisor, Billy makes recommendations on the development, implementation, and enforcement of presidential policy across the federal government. He serves as a key advisor to the Director of OMB, helping to coordinate regulatory changes, appropriations requests, and congressional engagement. In his role, Billy has helped plan, implement, and defend restructuring and mass layoffs within the Federal government, including those that have devastated agencies and offices leading vital federal reproductive health initiatives. Billy can also advise the Director on the drafting of the President’s Budget and funding decisions related to government programs that directly impact reproductive rights and access to care including Title X, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, the United Nations Population Fund, etc.

Stephen Billy assumed office on February 21, 2025.

Assumed Office Stephen Billy

Top red flags

Long-time anti-abortion advocate who has served in leadership roles at prominent anti-abortion organizations.
Signed onto a joint statement of anti-abortion leaders condemning abortion and vowing to challenge abortion rights.
Hired by an anti-abortion organization to develop and implement a state-level strategy aimed at limiting access to reproductive freedom immediately following the Dobbs decision.

In leaked audio published by ProPublica, Billy advised state legislators in Tennessee on how to defend their state’s total abortion ban, one of the strictest in the country.
Billy criticized efforts to enshrine abortion rights through state ballot initiatives, which allow individual voters to express their policy preferences directly, notably after claiming that the American people should have a bigger say in policy decisions around abortion.
Billy appeared on an anti-abortion media platform and used stigmatizing and inflammatory rhetoric about abortion and those who access abortion care.
Billy made stigmatizing and inaccurate claims about medication abortion while criticizing an FDA decision to remove medically unnecessary restrictions on mifepristone. Argued in a podcast interview that “[c]ourts could and should apply the original meaning of the equal protection clause to ensure that there are protections for preborn children.”

In a letter to Congress, Billy expressed opposition to the Ohio reproductive freedom ballot initiative, claimed the initiative “would repeal laws protecting the dignity of the unborn,” and repeated misinformation and stigmatizing language about abortion and abortion providers.
Billy signed onto a joint statement of anti-abortion leaders, which promoted “modest and reasonable restrictions on abortion,” challenged the concept of reproductive rights, and claimed that abortion has “wounded” our nation.
In an op-ed co-written by Billy, he opposed Florida’s state ballot initiative to protect abortion, repeatedly sharing misinformation that grossly mischaracterized the ballot initiative and abortion restrictions in the state.

Billy served as Vice President of State Affairs for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, an anti-abortion organization that seeks to “end abortion by electing national leaders and advocating for laws that save lives, with a special calling to promote pro-life women leaders.”
- Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America celebrated Billy’s appointment as Senior Advisor.
Billy served as Executive Director of Charlotte Lozier Institute, an anti-abortion research organization affiliated with Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
Billy spoke on a panel of so-called “experts on the life issue” alongside anti-abortion law professors and leadership at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
Billy contributed to the “Executive Office of the President” section of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump term, which advocates for numerous anti-abortion and anti-science measures.

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