“A number of us would like to see the stickier social issues presented as individual amendments,” said Rep. A floor vote on the GOP bill, which would block funding for service members to travel for an abortion if they’re stationed in a state where the procedure is banned, is now in jeopardy. The House’s Defense spending bill, which recently drew a veto threat from the White House over its anti-abortion provisions among other measures, is also in trouble. And their State-Foreign Operations spending bill would ban funding to any group overseas that provides abortions or information about the procedure. Their Labor-HHS-Education spending bill would ban federal funding for medical research using fetal tissue and bar Planned Parenthood from participating in any federal programs.
In other areas of the spending fight, House Republicans’ Financial Services draft funding bill would block Washington, D.C., from using its own money to support abortion services and ban insurance coverage of either abortion or gender-affirming care for federal employees. Those GOP moderates are eager to see controversial abortion provisions and other divisive provisions included the House’s other spending bills tossed out as House GOP leaders turn to crafting a larger funding package and reconciling it with the Senate. Fellow New York Republican Mike Lawler, who also hails from a Biden district, told POLITICO the abortion pill policy “should be dealt with at the state level.” Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.), who represents a district President Joe Biden won in 2020, said in an interview earlier this summer that he “cannot vote for the bill” as long as it includes the abortion pill rider. but battles over the drugs continuing to play out in courts, state legislatures and on Capitol Hill. Approved for use up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, the pills have become the most common method of abortion in the U.S. In particular, those moderates have objected to the provision in the Agriculture and FDA spending bill to ban mail delivery of abortion pills, which have become a major flashpoint since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. While GOP leaders anticipated pushback on the spending proposals from their right flank - including pressure for deeper spending cuts and tougher border security measures - they’ve also faced rare public pushback from moderate Republicans, who have dug in against their abortion strategy. “We gotta get the border done,” Zinke said.
The focus now, the Montana Republican said, should be elsewhere. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), a member of the Appropriations Committee, said agriculture was important “on both sides of the aisle” but that Agriculture Department and FDA funding will likely be hammered out in talks with the Senate. “It’s dead, dead,” one of the people familiar with the talks said, describing the fate of the House USDA and FDA funding bill, and, for now, the ban on mail delivery of abortion pills House Republicans have been pushing. That leaves the Democratic-controlled Senate - which is advancing its own, very different version of the Agriculture and FDA funding bill as part of a “minibus” spending package this week - in a far stronger negotiating position when it comes time to hammer out a compromise spending bill to fund the government. Now, Republican leaders have no plans to bring the bill to the floor vote amid the time crunch, the three people familiar with the talks confirmed.
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