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GOP Accused of Trying to Slip Backdoor Abortion Ban Into Government Funding Bill (www.commondreams.org)

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Congressional Republicans are reportedly trying to insert anti-abortion language into government funding legislation as the shutdown continues, with the GOP and President Donald Trump digging in against a clean extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits as insurance premiums surge.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, sounded the alarm on Saturday about what he characterized as the latest Republican sneak attack on reproductive rights.

Wyden said Saturday—which marked day 39 of the shutdown—that “Republicans are spinning a tale that the government is funding abortion.”

“It’s not,” Wyden continued. “What Republicans are talking about putting on the table amounts to nothing short of a backdoor national abortion ban. Under this plan, Republicans could weaponize federal funding for any organization that does anything related to women’s reproductive healthcare. They could also weaponize the tax code by revoking non-profit status for these organizations.”

“The possibilities are endless, but the results are the same: a complete and total restriction on abortion, courtesy of Republicans,” the senator added. “Trump said he’d leave abortion care up to the states. Well, this latest scheme makes it crystal clear: A de facto nationwide abortion ban has been his plan all along.”

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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 26 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Holy forking shirtballs.

Me two days ago: We should check US News.

Me to me: Why? Their supreme court blocked food to the poor. What more shocking developments do you expect in the next 48 hours?

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Son of a nice lady!

Jokes aside. I'm going to preface this by saying fuck the Trump administration for trying to starve people like my family and fuck the Democrats for capitulating to them. But my understanding on this is actually that "fully funding" SNAP for the entire country would take more than what that contingency fund had and that was the main driver behind the block. The plan was to send out partial payments from the fund but some states started moving faster than others and got their whole allotments. Probably not the best idea to just let as I understand it like 2/3s of enough money be first come first served. So the order got blocked temporarily while some procedural stuff got ironed out.

Like, entirely fuck the Trump administration for creating this problem. But if the stuff I'm reading is accurate, not blocking it to give the court a chance to figure out procedure stuff could have been a massive shit show.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They have money to fund their Gestapo; they can fund SNAP. The cruelty is the point.

Imagine defending the Trump administration's bullshit argument to starve citizens. I'd be ashamed.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not defending anything. But there is a little bit more to the discussion on the SNAP stay thing than just saying "court blocked SNAP order"

It's boring, it's stupid, I hate that our fucking courts are structured like this. But the adminstration also can't be allowed to just let the funds be a free for all and just let whoever is able to grab their SNAP funds get food while everyone else now has to sue again to get them to comply with the original order.

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