House Speaker Mike Johnson said he wants funding for Planned Parenthood and PBS to be tight next year as Republicans press forward with their plan to shrink the federal government during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

“I’d love to, that’s for sure,” Johnson replied when asked during an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum if he planned to “destroy” her.

He added that he still needs to build “consensus” to ensure he has enough votes in Congress to implement it.

“This requires the hard work of legislating and getting everyone on the same page,” Johnson said.

At the same time, he said the Trump White House would have “broad authority” to influence government austerity measures itself, predicting that some of that would come unilaterally through executive orders.

Republicans will experience the so-called trifecta in Washington next year after winning control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives in November elections.

The party is emphasizing reducing the size and influence of the federal government, including through Trump’s new effort, called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and led by businessmen Elon Musk and Viviek Ramaswamy. In a statement last month announcing the new department, Trump promised that the pair would “cut government bureaucracy, eliminate excessive regulations, cut wasteful spending and restructure federal agencies.”

Musk and Ramaswamy were on Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with Johnson and other Republicans.

During his Fox News interview, Johnson said the party was “preparing the playbook to unleash and roll out in January” when Republicans take power, adding that he wanted to “take a blowtorch to the regulatory state.”

Planned Parenthood, in particular, has long been a target of Republicans because abortion is one of the many different services it offers.

During his first term in office in 2019, Trump took a step toward cutting funding for the organization when he passed a rule banning clinics that provide abortion services or referrals from receiving federal funding under a specific government program. President Joe Biden rolled back these policies during his time in office.

During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised to defund the organization, but took a more nuanced stance on abortion in general during the 2024 election after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.