The Trump administration clearly knows the information-sharing law isn't broad enough to defund all the cities it wants to defund.
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He also filed amendments after the deadline to defund tax credits or refunds without a valid Social Security number and to defund the capital gains tax.
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The introduction of this bill came on the heels of a vote that would defund the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as well as Paul Ryan's promise to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Steve King (R-Iowa) offered amendments to defund the collection of estate taxes as well as to defund the collection of all current taxes and only allow a sales tax to replace them.
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In 2013, it was over an effort to defund Obamacare.
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That could theoretically defund hospitals or entire public health departments.
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Republican President Donald Trump has pledged to defund the organization.
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They would not defund initiatives that protect survivors of abuse.
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Courts have repeatedly rebuffed state attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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By introducing an amendment that would defund Planned Parenthood, Sens.
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Meanwhile, other Republicans instead prioritized a push to defund ObamaCare.
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Let's defund hate and uphold our collective right to freedom.
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Two more say they won't vote to defund Planned Parenthood.
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"I don't want to defund the state or city, I don't want to defund anybody, I want to give them the money they need to properly operate a city or a state," Trump said.
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"There have been attempts the last two years to defund them, and we will do anything we can to defund them," said Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, which opposes abortion.
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Pence has fought throughout his political career to defund the organization.
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Any day now, Ohio will take steps to "defund" Planned Parenthood.
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On March 14 Fielder's "Defund DAPL" coalition won its first victory.
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The House has repeatedly voted to defund the women's health group.
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INGRAHAM: Any sense about these nationwide injunctions, the sanctuary city, defund?
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We need the House of Representatives to defund the Mueller investigation.
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It also makes political sense for Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Speaker Ryan's call to defund libraries defies history, nature and logic.
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But, Trump added, he would still push to defund the organization.
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Trump signs vicious order letting states defund ALL Planned Parenthood services.
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They want to defund Planned Parenthood simply because it provides abortions.
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"If I could defund your haircuts, I would," Mulvaney shot back.
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In Congress, Republicans have voted six times to defund Planned Parenthood.
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"Our state senator Ray Scott voted to defund it," Brammeier said.
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I feel like we have the momentum to finally defund them.
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Republican candidates want to cut taxes for the wealthy, defund Planned
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The Republican health bill would defund Planned Parenthood for one year.
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I want to fund our military, not do a Dem defund.
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They educate their children in private schools, and defund public education.
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" One of the organization's main goals is to "defund Planned Parenthood.
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Terry Branstad signed a bill in May to "defund" the healthcare organization.
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But Ohio is different from other states trying to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The repeal and replace bill would, among other things, defund Planned Parenthood.
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That threatens to defund newsrooms in favor of social and search platforms.
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Gorsuch pretty strongly backed the side that wanted to defund Planned Parenthood.
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He joined a 21950 opinion seeking to defund many public-sector unions.
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It would also defund Planned Parenthood, a threat Republicans have often made.
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Plans to defund Planned Parenthood failed with the efforts to repeal Obamacare.
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He went back to Washington and voted ten times to defund it.
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It's no secret that the Trump administration plans to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Moderate Republicans in the Senate oppose provisions that would defund Planned Parenthood.
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Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski adamently don't want to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Graham is spearheading legislation to defund the U.N. over December's vote. Sen.
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Mr. Kasich, she added, has moved to defund Planned Parenthood in Ohio.
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When we empowered West Virginia to defund Planned Parenthood, Joe voted no.
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Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has also expressed reluctance to defund the group.
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She voted to defund Planned Parenthood and ban abortions after 20 weeks.
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Reports suggest that the Trump administration's coming budget will defund the endowment.
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But provisions about "prohibited entities" are basically attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Perhaps Republicans will find another vehicle to use to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Another attempt to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers has been struck down Another attempt to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers has been struck down Another attempt to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers has been struck down — this time in Mississippi, where a federal judge ruled against a state law that prevents health clinics that offer abortion services from getting Medicaid funding.
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There were senators standing up threatening to ... In fact, not only threatening, but actually trying to defund the antitrust division at the time, defund Joe's car access or ... you know, silly things like that, which ultimately were not successful.
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As a congressman, Pence sponsored the first House bill to defund Planned Parenthood.
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If elected president, he says he would defund Planned Parenthood by executive action.
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Trump noted his push during the 2016 presidential campaign to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The Senate version of the bill is also expected to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Its allies are fundraising off attempts by the GOP to defund the organization.
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And we've learned that when states defund Planned Parenthood, that usually doesn't happen.
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Ten states have already taken steps to defund the group in that way.
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Zevin Asset Management's goal is clear: Defund those who hold different policy views.
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It signals that the fight to defund sanctuary cities has begun in earnest.
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Several GOP primary candidates have also pledged to defund the group if elected.
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The videos gave new strength to the conservative drive to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The bill in its current state would defund Planned Parenthood for a year.
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Republicans in Congress then approved votes to defund Planned Parenthood eight separate times.
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Every Republican candidate opposes abortion and wants to defund Planned Parenthood, of course.
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Henry Cuellar voted to defund sanctuary cities and reproductive services for women's health.
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As a candidate, President Donald Trump said he would work to defund Planned Parenthood.
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If we have to we'll defund; we give tremendous amounts of money to California.
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I would defund it because of the abortion factor, which they say is 3%.
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Republicans are pushing to defund Planned Parenthood, a leading provider of sexual health care.
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We need to actually defund sanctuary cities and use that money to fund ICE.
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That's when the then-congressman of Indiana started the movement to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The rule would preserve all other ways to defund and repeal executive branch actions.
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But the bill's provisions about "prohibited entities" are basically attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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He appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and is trying to defund Planned Parenthood.
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It didn't defund Planned Parenthood or sanctuary cities, and it didn't prioritize school choice.
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Activists are particularly disappointed with the failure to repeal ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood.
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"They call Ted Cruz Obama's nemesis because Cruz fought to defund ObamaCare," it said.
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Mike Pence's annual quest to defund Planned Parenthood that it threatened a government shutdown.
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As governor, though, Indiana accepted the law's Medicaid expansion, which Trump wants to defund.
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For the past eight years Republicans have been working to defund or repeal Obamacare.
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It's unclear if the Senate version will include an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Herbert dealt with an effort by the state of Utah to defund Planned Parenthood.
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And together we brought down Trumpcare, and this Administration's attempt to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Rand Paul's amendment to defund Planned Parenthood got a vote and failed, 45–48.
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You see Diane Black, who's had a number of bills to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The big picture: President Trump has proposed to defund federal money toward public libraries.
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However, he added that he'd defund it anyway due to the abortion services provided.
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Ayotte has voted to defund Planned Parenthood, though last fall, she went against Sen.
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Our federal delegation is working hard to defund the designation or rescind it altogether.
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The Senate and House must vote to immediately defund unauthorized military action against Iran.
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President Barack Obama in January vetoed a effort by Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Texas has long been at the forefront of the battle to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Every effort to defund Planned Parenthood has also been met with organized Democratic opposition.
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Pence recycled a refrain he's used to target other Democratic incumbents, telling the crowd that "Debbie voted no" on a GOP-crafted tax cut bill, legislation to defund sanctuary cities, legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and on Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's nomination.
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Republicans seem determined to defund Planned Parenthood, restrict access to contraception and overturn legal abortion.
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Planned Parenthood funding Another potential non-starter for conservatives: a failure to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Womens' groups fear that the administration's plans to defund women's health funding around the world.
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The looming effort to defund Planned Parenthood will meet a lot more opposition than that.
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Texas actually attempted that strategy to defund marriage licenses for same-sex couples in 2015.
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If they defund it, Americans will see just how much they really had to lose.
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She is going to defund public education and deny a quality education for our kids.
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Shortly after the release of the videos, Republicans began a push to defund the organization.
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This would presumably allow conservative state governments to defund Planned Parenthood and other contraception providers.
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So defund the investigation, Dan, I don&apost know if that&aposs going to happen.
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This isn't the first time that the U.S. government has tried to defund the Jasons.
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Now we have that ninth circuit ruling today that you can&apost defund sanctuary cities.
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As Republicans continue their fight to defund Planned Parenthood, many states have begun fighting back.
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The state has also tried to defund Planned Parenthood, but those efforts are currently blocked.
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The bill would make significant cuts to Medicaid and defund Planned Parenthood for a year.
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The bill includes deep cuts to Medicaid and would defund Planned Parenthood for a year.
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Two things everyone is talking about are the Planned Parenthood defund and any regulatory changes.
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Before Iowa, Texas was already an example of what happens when politicians defund women's health.
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On Wednesday, the House will vote to undo the healthcare law and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Some scientists feared that the new Administration would defund NASA 's climate-research satellite missions.
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Anti-abortion advocates have been frustrated over the GOP Congress's failure to defund Planned Parenthood.
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He's voted to repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood and block measures to combat climate change.
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"That's all you hear: We're going to defund Planned Parenthood because of abortion," she said.
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Republicans in Congress have attempted to defund any measures to allow enforcement of the regulation.
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The businessman maintains he would still defund the healthcare organization over "the abortion factor," however.
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"Every single GOP presidential candidate would defund Planned Parenthood," the former secretary of State added.
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The proposal actually goes further than previous GOP attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, Politico noted.
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And of course that House-passed health care bill is going to defund Planned Parenthood.
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In 85033, we saw the passage of both a repeal bill and a defund bill.
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Some have framed the revised Title X rules as an effort to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Anti-abortion groups were quick to applaud the development, which would effectively defund Planned Parenthood.
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Steve King (Iowa) and Andy Biggs (Ariz.), have submitted amendments to defund the DACA program.
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In fact, we should defund some of them permanently to help close the federal deficit.
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In April 2016, Republicans in the state Senate advanced a bill to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Obama has repeatedly tried to defund the program in his annual budget, to no avail.
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"You said, 'Planned Parenthood does wonderful things and we should not defund it,'" Mr. Cruz said.
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The racism comes in saying the first thing we want to do is defund Planned Parenthood.
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The fight to defund Planned Parenthood could shut down the government in less than a month.
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When the VP served in the House he led the conservatives' charge to defund Planned Parenthood.
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In this new Congress, all legislative efforts to defund Planned Parenthood are likely dead on arrival.
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And at least 10 states with Republican governors have taken steps to defund Planned Parenthood locally.
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The move follows the House's push to undo the Affordable Care Act and defund Planned Parenthood.
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The GOP has already planned to defund Planned Parenthood, a reproductive health resource for countless people.
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But Republicans are determined to defund Planned Parenthood, outlaw abortion, and make contraceptives harder to access.
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In 2013, Cruz was instrumental in shutting down the government in an attempt to defund ObamaCare.
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That would give Congress much stronger oversight of the agency and the potential to defund it.
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Utah's Republican governor, Gary Herbert, attempted to defund Planned Parenthood, raising a similar issue among centers.
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Congress is considering numerous bills that would defund and ultimately privatize the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
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Fidel: They immediately obstructed enrollment efforts by passing laws intended to limit and defund Obamacare outreach.
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Pushing an agenda to defund Planned Parenthood will hurt women – and will hurt the Republican Party.
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Yet Republicans try to defund Title X, the traditional family planning program in the United States.
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He wants to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal the Affordable Care Act, among other terrible ideas.
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In 2013, attempts to leverage the debt ceiling to defund ObamaCare resulted in higher borrowing costs.
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" Trump has some immigration priorities of his own, however, calling on Congress to defund "sanctuary cities.
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Whenever Republicans have power and a spending bill comes up, they want to defund Planned Parenthood.
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It seems unlikely that there are nine Senate Democrats who would vote to defund Planned Parenthood.
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In August, the White House decided to defund the United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees.
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The proposed budget would defund the agency's $3.3 million Radiation Protection program and eliminate 60 jobs.
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The organization blamed the closures on politicians who moved to "defund" Planned Parenthood for performing abortions.
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The organization blamed the closures on politicians who moved to "defund" Planned Parenthood for performing abortions.
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Murkowski say the House health bill should be stripped of its provisions to defund Planned Parenthood.
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There's been a tremendous response, I think because of this national effort to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Congress's push to defund reproductive health care centers is likely due to conservative beliefs against abortion.
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Clinton says she supports the law and will fight Republican efforts to defund or repeal it.
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Yes, they're empowering some states to defund Planned Parenthood and similar providers, partially, if they choose.
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Texas Republicans move to defund Planned Parenthood Texas Republicans move to defund Planned Parenthood Texas Republicans came one step closer to their goal of defunding Planned Parenthood on Tuesday, after state health officials filed a final legal notice to cut all Medicaid funding from the organization.
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It all started with Kimmy wanting to know more about the government's decision to defund the institution.
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He opposes marijuana legalization and wants to slash the federal budget, repeal Obamacare, and defund Planned Parenthood.
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During his time as a state legislator, he sponsored legislation to defund abortion clinics in Virginia. Rep.
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Paul Ryan has warned Americans that he plans to defund Planned Parenthood, and women everywhere are listening.
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Erik Paulsen in Minnesota's 230rd district, who they say has voted 633 times to defund the organization.
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Republican candidate Donald Trump has voiced opposition to abortion on numerous occasions, promising to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Kim Kardashian was casually browsing Twitter when she read about the government attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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A country that wants to support (and promote) ambitious telescopes, rather than defund the ones it has.
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"We should not defund the financial watchdog," she said of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in September.
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They all echoed similar concerns about what might happen if the Republican-led agenda to defund succeeds.
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" Trump vowed in September he would defund Planned Parenthood "as long as they continue to perform abortions.
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To do that, policymakers should fund only those programs that actually work and defund programs that don't.
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One would defund any scheme to partner with Russia on cybersecurity, which Trump has pledged to do.
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Maybe it'll catch on and we can finally stop the annual attempts to defund Planned Parenthood again.
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In days ahead, we are also expecting efforts to defund the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
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It should use it in the upcoming appropriations process to defund enforcement and implementation of the rule.
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It would also defund Planned Parenthood for a year and repeal the individual and employer insurance mandates.
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Reproductive rights Trump wants to defund Planned Parenthood if the women's health organization continues to practice abortions.
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What he fails to see is that this is exactly why the president needed to defund UNRWA.
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Many Republican presidential candidates have said they plan to defund Planned Parenthood if they get the nomination.
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" This was in response to Black's repeated statements saying that this "resolution does not defund Planned Parenthood.
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But in January, the administration signaled that it would look favorably upon efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Moderate Republicans have also expressed concern about provisions that phase out Medicaid expansion and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Before Trump, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he wanted to defund the CPB as well.
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Pence's greatest hits as Indiana's governor include repeated attempts to defund Planned Parenthood and harsh abortion restrictions.
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Thursday the House voted 345 to 75 to defund the organization, handing conservative Republicans a major victory.
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It was biased studies that led to the congressional decision to defund gun injury research, he said.
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Frustration with the Senate boiled over last year after Democrats stymied the effort to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Mr. Ryan has said he would defund Planned Parenthood in any repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
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The Obama administration had already warned that attempts by states to defund the group violated federal law.
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Vote against House Republicans who seek to defund relevant regulatory agencies and who oppose green energy initiatives.
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Republicans' effort to defund Planned Parenthood are likely to be helped by the incoming Donald Trump administration.
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Susan Collins has said any attempt to defund Planned Parenthood (which this bill does) also raises concern.
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In 2015, they pushed to defund Planned Parenthood in a must-pass bill to keep the government funded.
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Another Obamacare issue is the fate of efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, which is opposed by most Democrats.
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The president-elect has previously said Planned Parenthood helps millions of women, but he seeks to defund it.
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In his political career, Pence introduced legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and has vowed to send Roe v.
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Ohio could actually risk defunding its public health departments in the process of trying to defund Planned Parenthood.
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You saw it when the court declined to hear a case involving states' efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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There is "no doubt that they're going to defund Obamacare," which will "virtually repeal the law," Laszewski said.
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Ted Cruz (R-TX), who held a long-term spending bill hostage in an attempt to defund Obamacare.
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"Your father is about to completely defund the federal agency that helps to fund libraries," another person wrote.
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Both versions would subject the CFPB to the congressional appropriations process, meaning lawmakers could defund the agency entirely.
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Last week, Congress voted for the eighth time to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest family planning provider.
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In 2017, Texas Governor Greg Abbott used the line-item veto to defund the state's Colonia Initiatives Program.
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This is exactly what happened in 2013 when Republicans sought to use the debt ceiling to defund Obamacare.
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When access to HIV prevention falls casualty to politically motivated attempts to "defund" Planned Parenthood, real people suffer.
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It's no secret that President Trump and many of his GOP counterparts would love to "defund" Planned Parenthood.
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Texas is on the verge of setting a new national precedent for states looking to defund Planned Parenthood.
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He has also spoken out against Planned Parenthood during numerous GOP debates, and worked to defund the organization.
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Meanwhile, Trump's efforts to defund "sanctuary cities" such as Philadelphia are currently blocked by a federal judge's injunction.
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They believe he will deport criminal aliens and defund sanctuary cities, lower taxes and remove job-killing regulations.
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It nonetheless enjoys a degree of bipartisan support, and many Republicans objected to Trump's proposal to defund it.
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Let's not forget Trump's zeal to repeal and replace ObamaCare, which included a motion to defund Planned Parenthood.
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He has voted to defund health clinics that offer abortion services, and to ban abortions at 20 weeks.
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We hardly need to point out that these are all things the Trump administration is trying to defund.
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He may try to defund Planned Parenthood — for many poor women, the only chance to catch cancer early.
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The first test came when President Donald Trump and Congress pledged to repeal Obamacare and "defund" Planned Parenthood.
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King, who is retiring at the end of this year, also voted to defund Planned Parenthood 17 times.
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He also pledged to defund Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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A suborned regulatory state could easily quiet mass media criticism, defund opposition activity, and enrich politically friendly actors.
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In Congress, efforts to defund the group have failed, and committee investigations of the group have produced no results.
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There is little doubt that the Trump Administration aims to undermine, defund, and repeal much of the progressive agenda.
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But with the new administration and a Republican controlled Congress, the effort to defund Planned Parenthood is gaining momentum.
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Republican leaders are pushing hard to defund Planned Parenthood, but the move might hurt their efforts to repeal Obamacare.
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He wants to defund Planned Parenthood but he's not going to let the government shut down on his watch.
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His two bad options: Defund Planned Parenthood but do so knowing the bill won't make it through the Senate.
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Natarsha, whose breast cancer was caught early because of a screening at Planned Parenthood, which Republicans would defund. pic.twitter.
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Susan Collins (R-ME) bucked the rest of her caucus and opposed her party's drive to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Or Republicans might not be allowed to defund Planned Parenthood under the reconciliation rules, another potential problem for conservatives.
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They want him to slash rates of legal immigration and defund groups that advocate for immigrants, like La Raza.
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Republicans tried to defund all of Planned Parenthood with the health care bill that failed to pass last month.
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But, of course, conservatives say that the Planned Parenthood defund must remain in the bill to get their support.
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He famously led the charge to defund Obamacare in 2013, a battle that precipitated a 16-day government shutdown.
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The ACHA would also defund Planned Parenthood for a year, so naturally the women's healthcare organization is against it.
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He has repealed an Obama-era measure that prohibited states from passing politically motivated bills to defund medical providers.
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The most recent, in 2013, came as the result of a House Republican effort to delay and defund Obamacare.
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She has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood and has consistently stood against legislation that would defund the organization.
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If Congress passes healthcare reform with a provision to defund Planned Parenthood, the same could happen in every state.
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Anti-abortion groups say they're also looking into regulatory and administrative options to defund the women's health care provider.
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The ObamaCare repeal bill unveiled by the House Monday includes language that would defund Planned Parenthood for a year.
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In 2014, Rick Perry was indicted for abusing gubernatorial power, after he threatened to defund an anti-corruption agency.
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Established in 85033, the bank operated with minimal controversy for decades until conservatives sought to defund it in 2015.
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"You know, I can't tell you everything," he said when asked if the Senate bill would defund the organization.
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He denounced a voucher proposal, backed by DeVos and the Iowa GOP, as a scheme to defund public schools.
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That makes Title X one of the most successful anti-abortion programs, yet Republicans regularly try to defund it.
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Dean Heller outside of a private luncheon last week to ask him if he planned to defund Planned Parenthood.
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If we don't like the way the CDC is handling this virus, well, who voted to defund the CDC?
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Mr. Van Ness's story also has something to say to those who seek to defund and destroy Planned Parenthood.
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During the end of Obama's term, both chambers of Congress worked to defund the rule through the appropriations process.
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I truly hope those in Congress who appreciate NASA's importance will resist the president's intention to defund the ISS.
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Republicans helped drive that process by asserting that president Obama's 2010 signature health care reform legislation would defund Medicare.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced a bill to at once help fight coronavirus and defund Trump's border wall efforts.
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One way Trump could try to defang Mueller — without firing him — is to push Congress to defund the probe.
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Democrats have offered no proposals to defund or "raid Medicare," let alone divert Medicare funds to benefit undocumented immigrants.
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And if Congress can't or won't defund Planned Parenthood, a bunch of states will try to do it themselves.
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Seattle is suing the Trump administration for threatening to defund sanctuary cities Seattle is suing the Trump administration for threatening to defund sanctuary cities While Attorney General Jeff Sessions promised to "claw back" federal grants from so-called sanctuary cities, at least one city isn't giving up that money without a fight.
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Among them is Planned Parenthood, which is preparing to react if Trump and the GOP-led Congress defund the organization.
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"Allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood because politicians want to punish a health care provider only hurts women," said Sen.
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Wade and defund Planned Parenthood, and doesn't believe that the federal government should protect the rights of transgender people. Rep.
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Inside EPA said that suggests it may relate to the Paris Agreement, which Trump has threatened to abandon or defund.
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He has also threatened to defund the Paris Agreement, an international accord aimed at reducing the impact of climate change.
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"We're also hearing that the defund Planned Parenthood language may not stay in," Jordan told CNN in a recent interview.
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The second bill out of the Iowa Senate in the 2017 legislative session was a bill to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The decision is a blow to conservative lawmakers who've tried to defund the organization and other abortion providers for years.
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But the proposal does call to defund the part of the USDA that works with rural water and waste management.
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Besides supporting the failed Affordable Care Act repeal, he identifies as anti-abortion and has voted to defund Planned Parenthood.
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JAMES: I say we have to secure our borders, defund sanctuary cities, and protect ICE and our law enforcement officials.
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One of those provisions that could be on the chopping block would be a one-year defund of Planned Parenthood.
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It can declare war, defund or eliminate agencies, curtail the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and remove presidents from office.
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When they failed to reclaim the Senate in 2012, they shut down the government in a bid to defund Obamacare.
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Every time Congress considers legislation to 'defund' Planned Parenthood, women and men in America will fight back and speak out.
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It reined in funding for immigrant detention facilities, didn't defund so-called "sanctuary cities," and barely touched the border wall.
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"We committed to the American people to repeal every tax, every mandate, the regulations, and to defund Planned Parenthood," Reps.
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"I loved his appeal to please not defund things the Children's Hospital [Los Angeles] depends so much on," she said.
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Joni Ernst (R-Ia.), who has led the charge in Congress to defund abortion-provider Planned Parenthood, will also speak.
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Meanwhile, everyone alive must know about Cecile's marathon testimony before Congress last year over the battle to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The polling found that Joe Heck's votes to defund Planned Parenthood were the most convincing reason to vote against him.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Ohio is able to defund Planned Parenthood clinics because they perform abortions.
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President Trump should quit threatening to defund part of congressional healthcare plans because it's "probably not particularly productive," GOP Sen.
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Greg Abbott (R) to weaken and defund environmental enforcement have left the state unable to live up to the requirements.
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Senate Republicans are treading a narrow path as they seek to defund Planned Parenthood through passage of a healthcare bill.
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Congress first threatened to defund the Centers for Disease Control in 1996 if it recommended any form of gun control.
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Among other things, the letter demanded that Trump appoint pro-life judges and that he work to defund Planned Parenthood.
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As Sarah Kliff explained for Vox, Pence started introducing bills to defund Planned Parenthood at the federal level in 2007.
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Scott is part a national movement to defund Planned Parenthood and to obstruct women's access to healthy and safe abortions.
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Over the weekend, President Trump called for the spending bill to defund "sanctuary cities," which Democrats will almost certainly oppose.
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I want to fund our military, not do a Dem defund.... Trump's issues with the agreement aren't based in facts.
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In the wake of Paul Ryan's promise to defund Planned Parenthood, the current political climate is not promising for women.
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Still, the most lasting blow to the EPA could simply be Pruitt's campaign to defund and destaff the agency's programs.
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He voted against the Affordable Care Act, supported the Defense of Marriage Act and has voted to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Appealing to the religious right, Donald Trump is set to make good on his campaign promise to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The same can be said for legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and its barbaric trade in the baby body parts.
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Garrett supported a 2015 effort to defund Ex-Im that shut the bank down for roughly five months in 2016.
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Imagine you are lobbying your state or local jail or prison to create, renew or defund a prison arts program.
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Each of these three main players has a role to play in the larger effort to defeat and defund terrorists.
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MORE (R-Texas), the former House Financial Services Committee chairman who helped lead the 2015 effort to defund the bank.
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And they are exploring ways to use the budget process to potentially defund some of the law's most contentious provisions.
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The bill also does not defund so-called "sanctuary cities," something the White House specifically called on Congress to do.
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Clinton said, pointing in particular to the State Department's move to defund the United Nations Population Fund, among other programs.
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His effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, complete with a mandate to federally "defund" Planned Parenthood, failed.
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It's hardly a secret that the GOP has been trying for years to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal the ACA.
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The DNC wants the RNC to immediately defund (and demand reimbursement for) any election monitoring efforts that happened with RNC resources.
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And while protesters threaten and picket Planned Parenthood — and too often, zealots and terrorists attack it — Congress votes to defund it.
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It aims to roll back health care coverage for poor women, defund Planned Parenthood, and make maternity care optional for insurers.
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Trump's argument: The Freedom Caucus squibbed its historic opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood (for one year) through the Obamacare replacement bill.
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ICYMI, Speaker Paul Ryan has announced that, as part of efforts to defund Obamacare, Republicans are committed to defunding Planned Parenthood.
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Trump's Vice President Mike Pence, a former Indiana governor and strident opponent of abortion, has pushed Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Lots of the party's elected officials have vowed to defund Planned Parenthood, which in addition to its other activities provides abortions.
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Critics argue this will indirectly defund Planned Parenthood, which provides general health care and STD treatment in addition to abortion services.
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He had been working to defund the organization for years at that point, even while his colleagues focused on other issues.
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More than 160 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation in that chamber to defund and rescind Trump's order.
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We will work with like-minded Republicans and Democrats to block his agenda in Congress and defund it in the agencies.
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Female Republican senators oppose the bill's provision to defund Planned Parenthood for one year, and are helping shape the healthcare debate.
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More recently, Judge Gorsuch wanted to rehear, and likely reverse, a 10th Circuit ruling blocking Utah's move to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Conservatives who think government has done little to improve life for the poor are likely to try and defund key programs.
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Trump hopes to defund hundreds of projects, such as the Appalachian Regional Commission, which helps retrain miners as coders and farmers.
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"Anyone who wants to defund Planned Parenthood and wipe out safe, legal abortions has no idea what's best for women," Mrs.
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This year, the administration is actively working to defund $85033 million more from CCUS efforts and "repurpose" those funds to renewables.
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The Hill: Republicans are pressuring the Trump administration to defund Planned Parenthood or reinstate Reagan era restrictions before the midterm elections.
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They did that by preemptively promising not to shut down the government in any effort to defund or strip down Obamacare.
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GOP WANTS TO SAY BUH-BYE OBAMACARE: Wednesday, the House will vote to undo the healthcare law and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Many at the rally were critical of the plans of national and state Republican leaders including calls to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The nation's chief executive threatened to "defund" the Golden State, while California politicos promise an ongoing legal insurrection against the administration.
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The oil and natural gas industry consider the rule burdensome, and Republicans have worked hard to defund and undo the regulation.
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"Extreme politicians are trying to defund and shut down Planned Parenthood, but this is not what Americans want," per the release.
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Instead, the administration pursued a traditional Republican agenda of slashing regulations, cutting taxes, and trying to defund the social safety net.
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Conservatives have pushed to defund the women's health organization and prevent the subsidies from going to health plans that cover abortions.
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Republicans voted nine times to defund the organization in the last Congress alone, and they've promised to try again this year.
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And on the budget, on appropriations, I just introduced a bill yesterday to defund this fake climate committee they put together.
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Sessions and the DOJ aren't waiting for the courts to decide what they can and can't do to defund sanctuary cities.
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The Congressional Research Service recently cataloged legislative efforts to repeal, defund or delay the Affordable Care Act from 2011 to 2016.
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The run is raising money for Planned Parenthood, which Republican leaders plan to defund as a part of an ObamaCare repeal.
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Instead, they asked the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold a hearing on the project and consider options to defund it.
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That figure dropped below 28500 percent after Republicans shut down the government in 6900 in a failed bid to defund ObamaCare.
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Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins indicated the anti-abortion movement is getting frustrated with Congress's failures to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The previously pro-choice Trump has promised to defund Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court Judges to overturn Roe v Wade.
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The Trump administration rescinded Obama-era guidance earlier this year that made it more difficult for states to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Susan Collins opposes efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, but has not explicitly stated that such a provision would lose her vote.
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It also would defund Planned Parenthood and would allow insurers to charge older people five times as much as younger people.
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Shortly after the election, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced his intentions to defund Planned Parenthood and get rid of Obamacare.
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Donate to organizations you care about to help them fight Congress' plans to defund them and to send a message of support.
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Efforts to defund Planned Parenthood threaten Obamacare repeal Instead, Paul wants to replace Obamacare on the same day Republicans repeal the law.
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After 17 days, Boehner folded and passed a funding bill that did not defund Obamacare and that most of his caucus opposed.
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The new proposal aims to "defund" Planned Parenthood in a very indirect way that leaves room for a lot of collateral damage.
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SANDERS: Who not only thinks we are not going to -- not defund Planned Parenthood, we've got to expand funding for Planned Parenthood.
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He's a pro–life Democrat who voted against the Affordable Care Act and the DREAM Act and voted to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Trump's administration has already taken action to defund the organization because in addition to cancer screenings and HIV testing, it offers abortions.
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Let&aposs defund Mueller and his special counsel and use that money to get people to start releasing those state department emails.
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Mr. Obama also objected to provisions in the repeal legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, a women's health organization that also provides abortions.
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Kaine has repeatedly voted to block bills that would defund Planned Parenthood, which is pretty typical for a Senate Democrat these days.
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Yet, Republican leaders in Congress have continued to push to "defund" Planned Parenthood and block women from going there to receive care.
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Donate To Planned Parenthood It's important to understand that states taking away abortion providers' Title X funding won't completely defund Planned Parenthood.
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There was no sign that Congress was going to agree to defund the popular Special Olympics program in spite of Trump's proposal.
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Both chambers of Congress are now controlled by Republicans, clamoring to defund Planned Parenthood, and wipe out women's healthcare along with it.
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The GOP, the party that birthed him, can hardly wait to defund Planned Parenthood and get to work overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Rahm Emanuel chose people who would not defund the war, would not stand up to Bush, and would work with corporate lobbyists.
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Please raise my taxes, " Steyer argued that "tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.
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The rule has been cheered by Republicans as a way to defund Planned Parenthood, which serves 40 percent of Title X patients.
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Congress also voted to defund Planned Parenthood last year in response to the videos but the measure was vetoed by President Obama.
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"Bob Casey even voted against giving the Keystone State the power to defund Planned Parenthood," Pence said at the Heinz History Center.
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Again and again in recent years, Cruz promised supporters that he would mount a great filibuster in the Senate and defund ObamaCare.
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The announcement Thursday is likely a disappointment for Republicans and anti-abortion groups that hoped the administration would quickly defund Planned Parenthood.
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The Trump administration's recent attempt to defund Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPPP) grants to sexual health providers across the nation is evidence enough.
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Lee was a close ally of Cruz during the 28503-day government shutdown fight in 22019, when Cruz sought to defund ObamaCare.
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Barletta has supported GOP efforts to defund so-called sanctuary cities — a push both he and Trump have criticized Casey for opposing.
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SANDERS: Who not only thinks we are not going to — not defund Planned Parenthood, we've got to expand funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Ryan specifically advocated that the health care bill was still the best path to defund Planned Parenthood, a key conservative agenda item.
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Thursday's ruling follows the court's decision in December to pass on hearing two cases brought by states trying to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Planned Parenthood on Thursday slammed the GOP plan to defund the organization, arguing such a move would result in more unintended pregnancies.
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Republicans have been trying to defund Planned Parenthood over its abortion services, though the organization does not receive federal funding toward abortions.
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This is why recent calls in Washington to defund some satellite missions rattled so many of the NASA scientists I spoke with.
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Republicans there have been unable to defund Planned Parenthood or pass other abortion bills, many of which need 220006 votes to pass.
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But any push to defund Mueller appears unlikely to gain traction in Congress, where Mueller, a former FBI director, is widely respected.
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Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) that would defund any U.S. military action against Iran without first receiving congressional approval to a broader measure.
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And many Republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood, too, which would deprive women not just of coverage but also of care. 4.
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Women have been demanding answers from their Republican representatives about why they are voting to defund Planned Parenthood or roll back Medicaid.
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The Trump administration last week announced that it would roll back Obama-era guidance that made it harder to defund the organization.
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One program that unfortunately fits these definitions is the VA's controversial dog research, which the House unanimously voted to defund last month.
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It makes careful tweaks to provisions to defund Planned Parenthood and allow states more flexibility, meant to comport with strict reconciliation rules.
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He has weighed in on a couple of issues the effort to defund Obamacare, on immigration on a couple of issues like that.
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This isn't the much talked about "defund Planned Parenthood" bill that Republicans have promised to pass — that legislation has yet to be introduced.
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Pro-life lawmakers now aim to "defund" Planned Parenthood of the $500m-odd it receives every year from Medicaid and Title X funding.
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Senate Republicans' new bill threatens to defund Planned Parenthood for one year, dramatically roll back Medicaid, and give tax cuts to the rich.
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I talked about the importance of preserving life, of not just saying we're going to defund Planned Parenthood, but let's do something bolder.
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Rick Scott, who finally won a recount in Florida last week, signed several abortion restrictions as governor and attempted to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Trump's budget would defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, and received $445m from taxpayers in fiscal year 2016.
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Legislators have been trying to defund the group since the 1970s, according to research by the Guttmacher Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
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Before winning the presidential election in November, Trump had also promised to defund Planned Parenthood, and fought to get the healthcare bill passed.
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Shortly thereafter, he signed a law allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood, which provides reproductive care and cancer screenings to millions of women.
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Planned Parenthood has been vocal in their opposition to Trump, slamming many of his appointees and the Republican plan to defund the organization.
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If you don't like what's he's going to do in the future or what he's doing now then you can defund these operations.
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"When you call to defund Planned Parenthood, the vast majority of what you are removing is basic health care, not abortion," Bell says.
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It also promises to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides breast exams, pap tests, HIV tests, STI treatments, birth control, and abortions.
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"I talked about the importance of preserving life, of not just saying we're going to defund Planned Parenthood," the former Arkansas governor said.
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He repeatedly asserted that it was impossible to defund President Barack Obama's immigration executive order by shutting down the Department of Homeland Security.
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Its budget would be controlled by Congress, meaning a GOP-controlled government could try to defund it entirely to effectively eliminate the agency.
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But Trump has vowed to repeal the healthcare bill, and vice president-elect, Mike Pence, spent his career working to defund Planned Parenthood.
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If you don't like what he's going to do in the future or what he's doing now, then you can defund these operations.
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And that's why Americans, and particularly pro-life organizations and individuals, have been rallying for the past several years to defund Planned Parenthood.
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It's time for legislators to be emboldened by the support to defund the abortion giant and vote to strip them of taxpayer dollars.
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Both lawmakers opposed efforts by GOP leaders last year to defund Planned Parenthood, a major provider of family-planning services in their states.
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Here are some stories... Natarsha, whose breast cancer was caught early because of a screening at Planned Parenthood, which Republicans would defund. pic.twitter.
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The Trump administration announced Friday it is rescinding guidance from the Obama administration that made it harder for states to defund Planned Parenthood.
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He also has pledged to defund Planned Parenthood, which draws the ire of many Republicans because it provides abortions, along with other services.
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It's great that the message went viral and maybe will help people be more aware of the national effort to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Republicans also want to defund Planned Parenthood as part of the Obamacare repeal, on the basis that the healthcare organization also provides abortions.
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His views on social issues jump right out of the Tea Party playbook: He is anti-abortion and voted to defund Planned Parenthood.
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As a congressman, Mike Pence wanted to shut down the federal government in order to defund Planned Parenthood; today he's the vice president.
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In the past, McConnell has vocally opposed efforts by his colleagues to defund the ARC — though he has supported reforms to the program.
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Pence had led the charge in Indiana to defund Planned Parenthood, which is often a key provider of HIV testing in rural areas.
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In the 1990s, he twice led successful efforts in the House to defund the agency, only to see funding restored in the Senate.
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But they are even more of a mismatch with the projected consequences of a bill that would simply defund Obamacare's main coverage provisions.
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Sanders expressed concern about the measure's deep cuts to Medicaid, proposed plan to defund Planned Parenthood and tax breaks for large drug corporations.
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Today he just basically said he's going to deny, he's going to defund and for us that means a disaster is now possible.
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In the end, it had the same chances of success as one of the Texas senator's high profile filibusters to defund Obamacare: Zero.
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Trump has publicly needled members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, who want to defund Planned Parenthood, for opposing the GOP healthcare plan.
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The bill should defund Planned Parenthood, cut funding to sanctuary cities and provide meaningful funding for the president's border wall, among other issues.
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In recent days, senior Trump administration officials publicly expressed dissatisfaction with UNRWA but stopped short of saying the U.S. would defund the agency.
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The proposal would also defund Arts in Education by $29 million and the Department of Education's contributions to supported employment by $22.5 million.
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But in the fall of 2013, Congress could not agree about a budget amid a Republican crusade to defund the Affordable Care Act.
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"In Washington, Brian Fitzpatrick voted to defund Planned Parenthood and supports Donald Trump's effort to take away a woman's right to choose," she added.
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The orders help build the wall, dramatically increase deportation of undocumented immigrants, including those without criminal records, and defund sanctuary cities, among others initiatives.
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Congress currently is moving along a parallel repeal track that would defund key parts of the law through the process known as budget reconciliation.
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On Thursday last week, Ryan announced that he planned to defund Planned Parenthood as part of his larger vision to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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The House has already passed a National Defense Authorization Act with bipartisan support that includes an amendment that would defund all hostilities in Yemen.
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Collins and Murkowski also opposed the nomination of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and have both repeatedly countered their party's efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Instead, Ohio is trying to "defund" Planned Parenthood by kicking it out of various state and federal grant programs that specifically aid public health.
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Led by Amash, the libertarian Republican from Michigan, the House voted to defund a civil asset forfeiture program championed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Before 2007, when Pence was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, it wasn't something most Republicans talked about.
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"Anyone who wants to defund Planned Parenthood and wipe out safe, legal abortion has no idea what's best for women," Clinton said in June.
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The White House reportedly told Planned Parenthood that they'll abandon plans to defund Planned Parenthood — if the reproductive health organization stops providing abortion services.
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He's voted to defund Planned Parenthood; prohibit insurance companies from covering abortion procedures, and to prohibit Medicaid payments to healthcare providers that perform abortions.
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While much has been restored, if the Administration were to defund this program to pay for other budget items, the effects would be devastating.
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Pence has pushed Congress to defund Planned Parenthood and signed a state law mandating that a fetus be buried or cremated after an abortion.
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Whether he tries to defund Planned Parenthood, ban abortion, or make the Hyde Amendment permanent, we'll be fighting him every step of the way.
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The bill would defund Planned Parenthood (actually, block Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood clinics), causing millions of women to lose access to reproductive care.
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While Trump has waffled over whether he will defund Planned Parenthood should he become president, Cape Bretoners know their abortions will be paid for.
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In early March, Trump attempted to make a deal with Planned Parenthood that he would not defund the organization if they stopped performing abortions.
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He even offered to keep funding Planned Parenthood, which his administration had been threatening to defund, as long as the organization stopped performing abortions.
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Since Medicaid reimbursements for abortion are already illegal, blocking all federal money would defund services such as contraception, STD checks, and cancer screenings. Sen.
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The videos, which were later proven to be heavily and misleadingly edited, resulted in a renewed effort by abortion opponents to defund the organization.
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Pence has been a staunch opponent of abortion throughout his political career and helped fight to defund Planned Parenthood during his time in Congress.
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In the short time since President Trump took office, women's rights have been assaulted, most recently by the administration's efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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And the GOP-controlled House will now have a Republican president to send legislation to dismantle Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood, among other things.
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That fear makes sense: In 2017, Trump introduced a budget proposal that would entirely defund the USDA's water and wastewater loan and grant program.
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After failing to defund Planned Parenthood in 2017, anti-abortion groups are likely to make a push for Congress to do it next year.
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Proposals to defund and disengage from the U.N. have been put forward on Capitol Hill and by the Trump administration in its proposed budget.
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The rule reflects Trump's campaign promise to defund clinics that provide abortions, such as Planned Parenthood, and more broadly decrease access to abortion nationwide.
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But with a Republican president who has promised to defund Planned Parenthood, now is the perfect time to restore the regulations, abortion opponents say.
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Beyond that, Trump has begun the process of undoing Obama-era climate regulations and sought to defund research that will foster renewable energy growth.
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Certain members of Congress have already tried repeatedly to defund Planned Parenthood, and now they don't have a president who will veto any attempts.
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If Trump does indeed defund Planned Parenthood, I would be left without affordable healthcare for routine STI testing, contraceptives, and other sexual health services.
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At least 13 states restrict such procedures; 15 more have moved to defund Planned Parenthood, where many low-income women go for reproductive care.
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It'll make maternity benefits optional for private health plans, and defund Planned Parenthood — where 2.5 million Americans access family planning and maternity care services.
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At home, Trump is undermining the fight against cervical cancer by seeking to defund Planned Parenthood, which performs some 270,000 cervical cancer screenings annually.
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Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) amendment to defund four regional authorities, federally funded agencies that exist mainly to help spur development in specific rural areas.
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Paul has taken issue with Graham's argument that Congress's only way to rein in a president's war powers is to defund the military conflict.
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In this same window of time, Texas politicians voted to defund Planned Parenthood and slashed family planning dollars, reducing access to more than abortions.
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To abolish immigration detention, we must defund ICE's detention infrastructure, increase oversight and accountability of existing contracts, and promote community-based alternatives to detention.
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The company's system for reporting abuse, for example, has at times become a shooting gallery for online agitators seeking to defund their political enemies.
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A Democratic lawmaker has introduced an amendment to an upcoming government spending bill that would defund President Trump's controversial commission on voter fraud. Rep.
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Ten leaders of anti-abortion groups are urging Congress to defund Planned Parenthood using a fast-track budget maneuver that is immune to filibuster.
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The Republican plan would significantly reduce the access low-income women have to healthcare, prevent insurance plans from covering abortions, and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Republicans and Democrats agreed to forgo any language on abortion funding in the bill, rejecting an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood introduced by Sens.
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As governor he voted to defund abstinence-only education and signed legislation to expand Medicaid coverage to include family planning for low-income women.
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This would open the door to defund Planned Parenthood, which would mean that millions of women would be without affordable and accessible reproductive services.
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K-Mart, with an already struggling balance sheet and with multiple store closings, looks to be another hard hit in this race to defund.
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Anti-abortion protesters planned to picket outside about 13 Planned Parenthood clinics across the country to demand that Congress defund the health care provider.
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Republicans have been attempting to defund the organization in recent months after undercover video showed Planned Parenthood employees discussing selling fetal tissue for scientific research.
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Beyond President Trump's personal attacks on women, he has also threatened to defund Planned Parenthood, and banned funding to international health groups that provide abortions.
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He also has pushed restrictive abortion regulations and has pushed for Congress to defund Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit women's health provider that performs some abortions.
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It didn't fund Trump's border wall, and it kept out provisions that would defund Planned Parenthood paired with increases in defense and border security funding.
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The campaign against Planned Parenthood is anathema to these principles, and if a bill to defund the organization reaches his desk, he should veto it.
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It added that states may not defund family planning providers solely because they offer a "full range" of legal gynecological and obstetric care, including abortions.
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Among other things, when he was a lower court judge there was a lower case that came up involving an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood.
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As a member of Congress in 2007, he introduced the first bill to defund the non-profit organization because they provide legal abortions to women.
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President-elect Donald Trump and a large number of his cabinet members are open climate change deniers and have threatened to defund the earth sciences.
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" He declined to comment on whether Mr. Cuomo had asked him to defund community groups backing Ms. Nixon, saying he has "requests on all sides.
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Trump's budget would defund CPB, along with the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities and more than a dozen other agencies.
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Beyond President Trump's personal attacks on women, he has also threatened to defund Planned Parenthood, and banned funding to international health groups that provide abortions.
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Case in point: Republicans in Texas are now begging for the Medicaid dollars they gave up in order to defund Planned Parenthood four years ago.
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OkCupid also apparently has a way to weed out misogynistic jerks, which is by asking users if the government should defund Planned Parenthood or not.
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" Trump defends his past defense of Planned Parenthood: "I would defund it because I'm pro-life, but millions of women are helped by Planned Parenthood.
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"It will be really easy for the GOP to defund the Affordable Care Act and take it away," says Robert Laszewski, a health care consultant.
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While he once identified as pro-abortion rights, he vehemently opposed abortion during his presidential campaign and said he would defund Planned Parenthood if elected.
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Following in Texas' disastrous footsteps, four Planned Parenthood clinics will close in Iowa because of the state government's actions to partially defund the health organization.
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Amidst growing talks surrounding the Trump administration's efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, supporters of the reproductive health care organization have fought back just as hard.
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At the same time, it would completely defund the agency's environmental justice office, which ensures that communities of color receive equal protection under environmental laws.
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It was a reference to fall 2013, when Cruz rallied dozens of House conservatives to oppose any funding bill because it did not defund ObamaCare.
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The nation's 14 Democratic governors are threatening to sue the Trump administration if it follows through on a proposal that would partially defund Planned Parenthood.
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It is time for Congress to demand an end to ICE, and defund the federal agencies that are conducting these sweeping violations on our community.
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Kirk registers to lobby MORE (R-Ill.) to attempt to do away with a provision that would defund the nonprofit in the Senate repeal bill.
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Tonight's highlights include Facebook squaring off with the IRS, a failed attempt to defund a controversial federal agency head and another plea for Zika funding.
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True, he dismisses global warming, dodges the question of evolution, wants to defund Planned Parenthood and checks off all the requisite boxes for social conservatives.
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Yet some U.S. lawmakers continue to oppose the deal and have been promoting legislation to defund the deal's implementation and impose new sanctions on Tehran.
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One Senate Republican strategist noted that the president quickly reversed his administration's call to defund the Special Olympics after a spate of negative media stories.
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Finding and freezing this dirty Russian money hidden within our own borders is the simplest and strongest way to deter and defund Russia's continued aggression.
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What this all means: Democrats have long opposed this proposed rule, which conservatives and anti-abortion groups frame as a way to defund Planned Parenthood.
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So the executive action leaves it up to the attorney general and DHS to figure out how it can defund sanctuary cities without being coercive.
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As a member of Congress, he voted to defund Planned Parenthood and supported a ban on so-called partial birth abortions, according to his website.
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"Oddly, while cities have bent over backward to attract startup culture they have been equally determined to defund arts culture, especially in Europe," he adds.
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Politicians are trying to justify the move to defund the EAC as a conservative effort to shrink government, but that argument just doesn't hold up.
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In the same letter, he pledged to defund Planned Parenthood, make the discriminatory Hyde Amendment permanent law, and sign a nationwide 20-week abortion ban.
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"It's a counterintuitive way to defund the Taliban," Hall said, referring to prohibition feeding the black market, a hallmark of decades of US drug policy.
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But, hearing that the GOP plans to defund Planned Parenthood puts my future health and those who I may come into contact with in peril.
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The Israeli government has remained publicly supportive of the agency, resisting attempts to defund UNRWA for fear of being blamed for fomenting a humanitarian crisis.
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Both bills weakened protections for people with preexisting conditions, and moved to defund Planned Parenthood for one year, which Murkowski and Collins have both opposed.
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He has spoken at the March for Life and voted to defund Planned Parenthood and received high ratings from the National Right to Life Committee.
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Ms. Medina, of Clifton, N.J., cited the Time's Up campaign against sexual harassment and Republicans' attempts to defund Planned Parenthood as her reasons for protesting.
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And they defund comprehensive education (including art, music, civics, shop) in the name of improving math and English skills, as if they are mutually exclusive.
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The nation's 14 Democratic governors are threatening to sue the Trump administration if it follows through on a proposal that would partially defund Planned Parenthood.
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The California Democrat is also pushing for a vote on his bill to defund U.S. military action in Iran that doesn't first receive congressional approval.
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Madara also warned against language in the bill that would defund Planned Parenthood by blocking Medicaid reimbursements to the women's health provider for one year.
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The bill's consideration comes as anti-abortion groups fume over the GOP's failure to defund Planned Parenthood as part of an effort to repeal ObamaCare.
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In order to fully defund Planned Parenthood, Congress would need to pass a law that bars Medicaid from reimbursing its clinics for patient visits there.
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One example that illustrates how Pence and his idea went from a conservative outsider to the GOP mainstream is his idea to defund Planned Parenthood.
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But Trump made the issue a priority early in his presidency, signing an executive order to defund sanctuary jurisdiction that was ultimately blocked in the courts.
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Don't blow it up: There's an ongoing lawsuit by House Republicans, which would defund the cost-sharing reductions of ACA, bringing the law's entire framework down.
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Instead, House Republicans are attempting to cut or entirely defund the Election Assistance Commission without replacing it with anything to help states update their voting systems.
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Nah. Consider saving the harsh Twitter take-downs for the people who are doing real damage, like the climate-change deniers trying to defund the EPA.
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They have also spent tens of millions of dollars to roll back environmental regulations and defund or abolish the federal agencies that write and enforce them.
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"When President Trump threatened to defund our local law enforcement's ability to do its job and protect our people, he picked the wrong fight," Becerra said.
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To be clear, Congress is readying to not only defund Planned Parenthood, but also potentially make contraception that much harder to obtain for all American women.
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But in the wake of Trump's election, many have embraced it — in the belief that Trump's pledge to defund "sanctuary cities" will also be deemed coercive.
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As a congressman, the pro-life politician worked on a federal level to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides basic and affordable healthcare for women.
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Democrats say the bill, passed last month by the Senate with a tiebreaking vote cast by Vice President Pence, is an effort to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Even though Trump has vowed to defund Planned Parenthood if it continues to offer abortions, he has also lauded the women's health services Planned Parenthood provides.
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Congress hasn't been able to completely defund Planned Parenthood yet, but it just became a lot easier for states to keep money from women's health clinics.
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In August, Republican hopefuls Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and previous candidates Lindsay Graham and Rand Paul voted in Congress to defund women's health organization Planned Parenthood.
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Both Stone and Johnson, meanwhile, wore pins in support of Planned Parenthood, a reproductive healthcare group that Trump has pledged to defund because it provides abortions.
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"This is a presidency that has chosen to neglect totally the arts and humanities — deliberately defund them — and that doesn't rest pleasantly with me," Lear said.
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The new rules are a huge win for social conservatives and anti-abortion advocates, who have long been pushing the federal government to "defund" Planned Parenthood.
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And its actions to defund education and research in fundamental areas and limit immigration will further undermine U.S. potential as a crucible for invention and commercialization.
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On Tuesday, a federal judge rejected Trump's order to defund sanctuary cities, arguing that the White House had overreached with requirements not related to law enforcement.
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Congress, by a simple majority vote, can pass without threat of a filibuster a budget measure, such as one that would defund key parts of Obamacare.
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The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would repeal much of ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood for one year, sending the measure to President Obama's desk.
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Then her father would call for increasing funding to the larger operation, instead of joining with congressional Republicans in their efforts to defund Planned Parenthood entirely.
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Ted Cruz — to whom DeMint's PAC had given nearly $1 million for his 2012 Senate run — had been a featured speaker on DeMint's "Defund Obamacare" tour.
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In 2013, conservatives were trying to get Democrats to defund Obamacare and thought they could force the governing party to do so by shuttering the government.
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MEP has been helping create jobs and delivering training in every state for the last 22019 years despite President Trump's repeated attempts to defund the program.
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Go deeper: PBS CEO: "I don't understand" why Trump keeps proposing to defund us PBS documentary "College Behind Bars" explores the power of education for prisoners
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In recent weeks, for instance, they have been asked to take up two cases relating to whether states are allowed to defund Planned Parenthood through Medicaid.
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But there is a simple way for us to protect immigrants risking their lives seeking refuge: We must push Congress to defund the border industrial complex.
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With the spectacular failure of the ObamaCare repeal bill, the Freedom Caucus will almost certainly insist the funding bill include a provision to defund Planned Parenthood.
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"It does not fund his immoral and unwise border wall, it does not create a deportation force and it does not defund sanctuary cities," she said.
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Her speech was, as usual, boring, but its dullness muted the radicalism of her proposal—to defund asylum shelters and put the money into teachers' salaries.
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In 0004, the state Legislature slashed its two-year budget for family planning to $2000 million from $111 million in an effort to defund Planned Parenthood.
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In addition to the attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, there are other ways the bill will make it more difficult for women to access health care.
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This is all happening in the past few years, as there has been a ramp up against Planned Parenthood and a push to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Critics say the plan is aimed at fulfilling Trump's campaign pledge to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides abortions and other health services for women.
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Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska -- have not committed to approving an Obamacare repeal bill if it includes a measure to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Republicans have been pushing to fully defund Planned Parenthood for years, taking numerous votes to do so in the House when former president Obama was in office.
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He tells voter he'd never vote to defund Planned Parenthood — the most popular health care organization in the district — the same way he would never ban guns.
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In 2011, the Pence Amendment—named after none other than our sitting vice president—attempted to effectively defund the organization, though it failed to pass the Senate.
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But enough House Republicans wouldn't go for a funding bill that didn't defund Obamacare, setting up a showdown that shut down government for more than two weeks.
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"I'm announcing that if the Trump Administration moves forward with this fake climate panel, we will be introducing legislation to defund it," Schumer said on the floor.
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The Texas plan has garnered attention among Republicans in the U.S. Congress who are looking to defund the nation's largest family-planning provider at the national level.
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There is the criticism from policymakers who want to defund CPB that Americans have lots of choices of media these days, thanks to the internet and cable.
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A leaked draft of the ObamaCare repeal bill from House Republicans would defund Planned Parenthood, fulfilling their long-held goal cutting off federal money to the organization.
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The American Health Care Bill — President Donald Trump's failed attempt to repeal and reform Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act — included measures to defund the women's health group.
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Planned Parenthood is planning a wave of nationwide protests to dissuade the Senate from including language in the ObamaCare repeal bill that would defund the nonprofit organization.
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Gary Herbert's effort to defund Planned Parenthood, and his writings that criticize the constitutional principles underlying reproductive rights all suggest he would not uphold Roe, if confirmed.
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Ryan, the House speaker, is now bribing them with an ancillary provision to defund Planned Parenthood so that the whole repeal edifice doesn't explode on the launchpad.
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And as they work to repeal the ACA, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan promised last week that Republicans in Congress also plan to defund Planned Parenthood.
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He led the fight against the Gang of Eight amnesty bill in 2013, and he was a strong proponent of the "defund ObamaCare" effort later that year.
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Trump's elder daughter initiated the meeting with Cecile Richards, hoping to ease tensions and discuss the organization, which Republicans hope to defund, Politico first reported Thursday morning.
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South Carolina is now the third state to make such a request, the latest move in the GOP's fight to defund Planned Parenthood in the Trump era.
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In 2017, the head of EPA's environmental justice committee resigned after the White House proposed to completely defund the committee's efforts to protect minority populations from pollution.
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The initial draft of the legislation is expected to defund Planned Parenthood, but that language may have to be taken out for the bill to ultimately pass.
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He also voted to defund Planned Parenthood, a move that would have blocked vital reproductive health services to women including low-income women and women of color.
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The House proposals to defund Planned Parenthood and allow states to obtain waivers exempting insurers from federal requirements to cover maternity care were particularly unpopular with women.
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The point is that so-called Trumpcare, aka "The American Health Care Act," aims to defund Planned Parenthood, mostly on the basis that PP offers abortion services.
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These factors, along with the fact that the bill would defund Planned Parenthood for a year, are why getting Murkowski on board will be a tough sell.
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Michigan GOP Senate candidate John James accidentally sent out a mailer on Monday saying he would "defend," rather than "defund," sanctuary cities, according to The Detroit News.
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On a wider scope, it's clear that the Republican tax strategy is to defund the government in order to justify cutting social programs to balance the budget.
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"Yesterday was a preview of what would happen under a Republican president," Clinton wrote, citing House legislation passed Wednesday that would defund Planned Parenthood for one year.
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The White House attempted to completely defund certain Ryan White programs in 2017, including AIDS Education and Training Centers and Ryan White Special Projects of National Significance.
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During his time in the Senate, though, the younger Mr. Casey has become an ally of sorts for Planned Parenthood, fighting Republican efforts to defund the organization.
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The 113th Congress most memorably featured the first government shutdown in 17 years when Democrats refused to accept House Republicans' demands to defund the Affordable Care Act.
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A $1.1 billion compromise failed after House of Representatives Republicans attached language that would place restrictions on abortion and defund part of Obama's signature 2010 healthcare law.
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Women in Tennessee wait with bated breath for the White House's decision on a waiver from the state legislature that would defund Planned Parenthood in our state.
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Utah's anti-choice Governor Gary Herbert issued an executive order to "defund" Planned Parenthood but a panel of three appeals court judges ruled the move was unconstitutional.
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It turned radioactive in 2013 when the Texas senator played a pivotal role in shutting down the federal government with his high-stakes attempt to defund Obamacare.
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Ann Carlson's populist work deserves the same support, and any attempt to make her a poster child for the movement to defund the N.E.A. is seriously misguided.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that Republicans will seek to defund Planned Parenthood as part of their effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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Ted Cruz (R-TX), shut down much of the federal government for 250 days, demanding that Congress either delay or defund Obamacare before it was fully implemented.
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But in the wake of Donald Trump's election, many have embraced it — in the belief that Trump's pledge to defund "sanctuary cities" will also be deemed coercive.
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Eventually, his party followed — a Pence amendment to defund Planned Parenthood passed the House in 2011 (though it was never signed into law due to Democratic opposition).
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The NEA, which the Trump administration has proposed to fully defund, has long been accused of primarily serving coastal elites, when in fact the opposite is true.
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Chaffetz's committee has jurisdiction over the Office of Government Ethics, and his letter implicitly reminded Shaub that Congress could defund the ethics office or alter its mission.
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A hundred years after the clinic opened, we have one of our candidates for president wanting to defund Planned Parenthood, which is providing birth control to poor women.
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Yesterday, House Speaker Paul Ryan confirmed a major post-election fear: Republicans would seek to defund Planned Parenthood, as part of the GOP's larger plan to repeal Obamacare.
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Because of the recent election and promises from the incoming administration to defund Planned Parenthood, people are fighting harder than ever to protect the women's reproductive health organization.
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On issues in which interest groups were heavily involved – infrastructure, immigration, and attempts to defund Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act, to name a few, gridlock resulted.
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He could help to defund Planned Parenthood, as Republicans have been threatening to do for years, although polls suggest a majority of Americans are opposed to that too.
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House lawmakers have struggled to reach a deal to reboot the Ex-Im Bank after undoing a 2015 push from conservatives to defund and hinder the trade subsidizer.
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Texas and several other states have moved to defund Planned Parenthood; a bill to deny money to the group in Ohio is before the State Senate this week.
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"The referendum procedure is unavailable to belief-based groups, such as political and religious organizations," FIRE says in reference to Rutgers Conservative Union's campaign to defund the Targum.
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The bill also allocates public funds for family planning services, protecting them from Republican efforts at the executive and legislative level to defund entities that provide abortion services.
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Hillary Clinton stands behind Planned Parenthood, the largest single provider of reproductive health care in the United States, despite calls from its political opponents to defund the organization.
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After the campus newspaper at Wesleyan University published an article critical of Black Lives Matter, students tried to defund the paper for failing to create a "safe space".
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Despite not having not found any wrongdoing on Planned Parenthood's part, this bolstered Daleiden's "sting" videos and inspired a spate of state-level bills to defund Planned Parenthood.
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As a member of Congress, Pence sponsored the first bill to defund Planned Parenthood in 2007 — and did so repeatedly through 2011, when it finally passed the House.
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That could make for a difficult negotiation as the party struggles with additional divisions over issues like tax credits for private insurance and whether to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Pence, the first sitting vice president to attend the March for Life, vowed that the administration would work with Congress to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
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That promised to be a problematic provision in the Senate, where key swing votes like Collins and Murkowski have previously said they don't want to defund the group.
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Jeff Flake in Arizona, about plans to "defund" Planned Parenthood -- a move that would leave women across the country with nowhere to turn for essential reproductive health care.
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But it is also likely to have political consequences: The shutdown -- and effort to defund Obamacare -- is sure to be rich fodder for any Democratic nominee in November.
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According to recent polls, 62% of Americans do not support attempts to defund Planned Parenthood; 70% of Americans do not want the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.
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A $1.1 billion compromise bill failed after House of Representatives Republicans attached language that would impose restrictions on abortion and defund part of Obama's signature 2010 healthcare law.
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Kavanaugh shocked some court watchers when he sided with the liberals and Chief Justice John Roberts in a December order that limited state efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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When Tea Party Republicans tried it again in 2013, shutting down the government in a doomed effort to defund the Affordable Care Act, the strategy was a bust.
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Of course, in response, conservatives praised President Trump as delivering on a central plank of his campaign promise to defund Planned Parenthood and promote a culture of life.
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The changes had been pushed by conservatives and anti-abortion groups as a way to partially defund Planned Parenthood, which serves about 40 percent of Title X patients.
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Clinton's plan but wants her to emphasize the need for the federal government to work with states to ensure that they do not continue to defund their universities.
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The Gun Owners of America is openly urging members to elect a "pro-gun president" who will roll back Obama's executive actions and is pushing to defund enforcement.
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He also noted the scores of conservative policy riders the Republicans failed to attach, including efforts to fund Trump's border wall, penalize "sanctuary cities" and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Scoring a win before the midterms is crucial, abortion opponents say, so Republicans can build on their majority in the Senate and fully defund Planned Parenthood next year.
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The two groups teamed up to release new TV and digitals spots, shared first with The Hill, that condemn Toomey's vote to defund Planned Parenthood late last year.
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Clinton noting Mr. Trump had previously said abortion should be illegal and women who have them should be punished and that he also wants to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Following a congressional vote to defund Planned Parenthood, Bonow wrote a Facebook post about the positive experience she had getting an abortion at Planned Parenthood the year before.
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There's a little more to it than that, of course (the bill would also defund Planned Parenthood for a year), but really that's what this boils down to.
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The conservative push to defund Planned Parenthood has also struck a personal chord with Duckworth, who said she used Planned Parenthood as her primary healthcare provider during college.
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A Heritage billboard went up in Times Square — "Warning," it read, "Obamacare may be hazardous to your health" — and DeMint led a "Defund Obamacare Tour" across the country.
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When Republicans took back Congress after the 2010 Tea Party wave, Congressman Pence authored a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, completely removing all federal funding from the group.
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Back in 2000, Camenker's group illegally recorded LGBT youth groups and distributed the tapes in an attempt to defund the state's Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth.
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It led to the first Congressional proposal to defund the National Endowment for the Arts — a move that Mr. Trump's budget proposals have again put on the table.
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At a rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend, Trump also made a call to defund sanctuary cities in the funding bill — which would be a nonstarter for Democrats.
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And though lawmakers have repeatedly rejected Trump's suggestion to massively defund the program, they have not succeeded in fully funding it, instead securing about $450 million last year.
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Planned Parenthood is already citing Nevada polling that shows 49 percent of voters in the state would be less prone to supporting candidates who vote to defund it.
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Budget analysts estimated the bill could take away access to health care in some areas from about 15 percent of women because of provisions to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Mustafa Ali, who has worked at the EPA for 24 years, is leaving as the Trump administration is proposing to completely defund environmental justice efforts at the EPA.
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By focusing on the targets, using political correctness as their excuse, university administrators effectively do the bidding of the billionaires, whose apparent goal is to defund public education.
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Advocacy groups opposed to abortion now want the measure that the GOP is using for tax reform for the next fiscal year in order to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Anti-abortion groups fuming over the Republican failure to defund Planned Parenthood as part of ObamaCare repeal are eyeing tax reform as the next vehicle for their cause.
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The two groups teamed up to release new TV and digital spots, shared first with The Hill, that condemn Toomey's vote to defund Planned Parenthood late last year.
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As calls to defund Planned Parenthood ramped up, Bonow expected pro-choice advocates to make bold statements in defense of the largest single abortion provider in the country.
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Unable to defund the program through the Congressional appropriations process, the Trump administration is determined to push it off the rails by putting administrative obstacles on the track.
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There is deepening international concern over deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the West Bank and Gaza, and the U.S. decision to defund provoked strong and polarized reactions in Washington.
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Seven days later, the infamy was compounded when Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate that would allow states to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Trump officials even tried to back-channel conservative ideas with allies in Congress to defund "sanctuary cities" or push for more border wall spending, but to no avail.
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On Saturday, Planned Parenthood is holding a massive rally in Milwaukee (House Speaker Paul Ryan's home turf) to protest Ryan's push to defund the organization and repeal Obamacare.
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Numerous political observers note that the real intent of this measure is to deliver on Trump's promise to defund Planned Parenthood, a major recipient of Title X funding.
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Trump officials even tried to back-channel conservative ideas with allies in Congress to defund sanctuary cities or push for more border wall spending, but to no avail.
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It seems that Trump supports Planned Parenthood's other women's health services, but that support puts him in a bind, since most Republicans want to defund the entire organization.
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Legally, this is murky territory that gets pretty complicated pretty quickly — though the Trump administration's 2017 efforts to defund "sanctuary" jurisdictions were smacked down hard by federal judges.
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Just since the videos were released in July, according to the New York Times editorial board, 23 states have tried to defund Planned Parenthood in one way or another.
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" She also argued that Congress should use its power of the purse "to defund the AG's authority to interfere with anything that affects Trump, his friends, or his elections.
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The policy has Planned Parenthood squarely in its crosshairs, being part of a slate of strategies the administration and GOP lawmakers have employed in attempts to defund the organization.
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Under this administration, we have seen ultraconservatives in Washington attack our reproductive rights, attempting to defund Planned Parenthood and claiming that maternity care is not an essential health benefit.
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Ro Khanna, who sponsored the amendment to defund hostilities in Yemen in the House, believes that if Congress doesn't take this stand now, it could have long-term ramifications.
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The GOP's own platform, ratified in Cleveland last week, calls to defund Planned Parenthood, and condemns the Supreme Court's recent decision to strike down restrictions on abortion in Texas.
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The future president has vowed to defund Planned Parenthood — a sentiment echoed by his vice president — a blow for anyone wanting to safely seek and receive reproductive health care.
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And versions of a replacement healthcare act that would include a provision to defund Planned Parenthood have previously been killed in the Senate because they couldn't get enough votes.
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The travel bans, the transgender military ban, an effort to curb refugees, rescinding DACA, Trump's order to defund sanctuary cities, and more — all blocked by US District Court judges.
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Instead, efforts to "defund" Planned Parenthood would block women from accessing birth control, cancer screenings, and STD testing and treatment—critical preventive care that many people cannot get elsewhere.
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Instead, efforts to "defund" Planned Parenthood would prohibit anyone that relies on public health programs (like Medicaid and Title X) from getting their care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
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The senator has basically argued before that he never wanted a shutdown, he was just trying to defund Obamacare, and it was everyone else's fault for not going along.
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"I'm confident the Republicans in Congress and the president will move ahead and defund Planned Parenthood," said Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life.
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Designer Gabriela Hearst has not only refused to dress First Lady Melania Trump, but has spoken out against the president's immigration policies and his plan to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Supporters of Planned Parenthood have been sharing selfies, photos and other social media posts splashed with the color pink to voice opposition to political plans to defund the organization.
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In December he, along with Justice Kavanaugh, decided not to take up two cases brought by states trying to defund Planned Parenthood, the biggest provider of abortions in America.
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Burwell) court hearing last Monday over the ACA's cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) the Trump Administration had an opportunity to provide needed certainty and stop threatening to defund health care.
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Quist's campaign has also targeted Gianforte over a Friday campaign event with Vice President Pence, saying the two have an anti-abortion record and want to defund Planned Parenthood.
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No conservative can deny the need to defund organizations such as National Public Radio, which takes everyone's tax dollars and spends them on advocacy for a far-left agenda.
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It's already illegal for federal money to pay for abortions, so this doesn't defund the procedure; rather, it removes funding for preventative family-planning services such as birth control.
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The failure of The American Health Care Bill (Trump's proposed replacement for the Affordable Care Act, which included measures to defund Planned Parenthood) was certainly a victory for Democrats.
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The bill, which Democrats say is really an effort to defund Planned Parenthood, passed the Senate last month after Vice President Pence had to cast a tie-breaking vote.
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Every bill that Congress considered to roll back the ACA also called for excluding Planned Parenthood affiliates from Medicaid — making good on Trump's campaign promise to defund the group.
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A better strategy would be to seek to defund the coalition, as might be included in a defense spending bill such as the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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The enormous administrative undertaking that would be required to put into effect the deferred deportation program — which some in Congress had hoped to defund — would thus be wholly unnecessary.
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The CHC and progressives have mostly been in lockstep throughout the Trump administration in their dual demands to defund interior immigration enforcement while opposing construction of a border wall.
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Hillary Clinton praised the payday lending proposals that the consumer agency released last year and urged her fellow Democrats to fight Republican efforts to "defang and defund" the agency.
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For the very first time, using budget reconciliation, both the House and the Senate voted to divert most federal funding away from certain abortion providers and to defund Obamacare.
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Cruz, who was a freshman senator at the time, led the charge to shut down the government in an attempt to defund for the Affordable Care Act in 85033.
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Republicans have been trying to defund Planned Parenthood at the state level since the late 1970s, as part of a broader strategy to make abortion less affordable and accessible.
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One way to advance this agenda would be to defund the kleptocrats, terrorists, drug cartels, and other criminals who threaten the security of the United States and our allies.
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They are motivated partly by hostility toward Planned Parenthood over abortions, but Pence, while a congressman, also sponsored legislation to defund Title X, the main federal family planning program.
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Which means to me that people who try to ban them while also trying to defund Planned Parenthood and other programs that work to prevent unwanted pregnancies are hypocrites.
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Meanwhile, Trump and his appointees have worked to help defund Planned Parenthood, jeopardize access to birth control, and keep undocumented, unaccompanied minors in the United States from getting abortions.
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Janus is largely being discussed as a case that is likely to defund and disrupt labor unions, but the case cannot simply injure unions and leave everything else intact.
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Ted Cruz (R-TX) made himself famous for reading Green Eggs and Ham from the Senate floor while urging the Democratic majority to defund their signature health care law.
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A new national survey shows 70 percent of Americans oppose Republicans' attempts to defund Planned Parenthood as part of their repeal of the Affordable Healthcare Act, known as Obamacare.
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And they are considering potential ways to use the budget process to defund some aspects of the law, all of which comes on top of the president's executive actions.
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What's more, members of Congress are doing comparatively little messaging compared to the impasse of five years ago, when conservatives tried to defund Obamacare and eventually GOP leaders blinked.
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"This backdoor 'defund' could — and will — pave the way for other states to follow Texas's dangerous lead, with grim consequences for repro health nationwide," Planned Parenthood Action Fund tweeted.
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The two never saw eye-to-eye in Congress, sharply disagreeing over Cruz's role in the 2013 push to defund ObamaCare, which led to a politically costly government shutdown.
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In 22018, after undercover videos of Planned Parenthood workers discussing the distribution of fetal tissue were released, conservatives pushed to defund Planned Parenthood (and nearly shut down the government).
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In the episode, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) gets an abortion as Mellie (Bellamy Young) filibusters in the Senate, trying to stop a bill that would largely defund Planned Parenthood.
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The leaders, led by the Susan B. Anthony List's Marjorie Dannenfelser, asked Republicans in a letter Tuesday to revisit the fiscal 2017 reconciliation bill "immediately" to defund Planned Parenthood.
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McConnell then pivoted to the policy benefits of having Trump in the White House, listing legislation to repeal ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood as bills that would come law.
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But this seems unlikely, to put it mildly, given that such a commitment was absent from Donald J. Trump's campaign, and alongside Mr. Trump's vow to defund Planned Parenthood.
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If the administration is serious about carefully crafting a plan, and is willing to pick a political fight, it could defund "sanctuary cities" without running afoul of the Constitution.
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The agency said it was revoking Obama administration legal guidance that had sought to discourage states from trying to defund organizations that provide abortion services, such as Planned Parenthood.
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It didn't fund Trump's border wall, and it kept out provisions that would defund Planned Parenthood in exchange for an increase to defense funding and some border security money.
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Last week, the House Administration Committee voted on party lines to defund the Election Administration Commission, the leading federal agency responsible for helping states run smooth elections and preventing hacking.
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Power also defended the United Nations against threats by Trump and some congressional Republicans to defund the world body in response to a recent Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements.
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It falls on the Trump administration, which has moved to defund and upend climate change initiatives instead of planning for a transition to cleaner power sources, like wind and solar.
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Inside EPA said that suggests it may relate to the Paris Agreement, an international accord to reduce the impact of climate change, which Trump has threatened to abandon or defund.
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Inside EPA said that suggests it may relate to the Paris Agreement, an international accord to reduce the impact of climate change, which Trump has threatened to abandon or defund.
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To be clear, Trump has issued some significant executive actions, including his travel ban and his bid to defund "sanctuary cities" (both of which are currently held up in court).
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"This is a presidency that has chosen to neglect totally the arts and humanities — deliberately defund them — and that doesn't rest pleasantly with me," Lear told the New York Times.
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Just this morning, the same morning of Twitter's Q1 earnings report and call, Trump was on a tear about the Federal Judge who blocked his plan to defund sanctuary cities.
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Despite suffering the most dramatic in a series of failures in the years-long effort to "defund Planned Parenthood" just last month, anti-abortion advocates and lawmakers aren't giving up.
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Arkansas is hardly the only state to make a substantial effort to defund Planned Parenthood, and today's ruling could potentially lead to a showdown in the United States Supreme Court.
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Cruz released a campaign ad last year promising to "prosecute and defund" Planned Parenthood for its (legal) fetal tissue donation program, where aborted fetal tissue is given to medical researchers.
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Planned Parenthood, Pell Grants, the National Institutes of Health, and the EPA went surprisingly unscathed, though the House did vote to defund Planned Parenthood in the new health care bill.
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But the projects that are used to capture that data might be at risk: Some House Republicans and at least one Trump adviser want to defund NASA's climate research arm.
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As Chelsea Handler prepares to march for women's rights come Saturday, she's calling out president-elect Donald Trump and his future cabinet to reconsider their plans to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Planned Parenthood The House health care bill would defund Planned Parenthood for one year, a provision that could face increased scrutiny in the Senate where some moderate lawmakers like Sens.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan suggested earlier this week the House would not try to defund Planned Parenthood while working to approve spending to keep the government open beyond April 28.
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Sanders, a supporter of a "Medicare-for-all" healthcare plan, has called for a national day of rallies to protect ObamaCare and has ripped GOP efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Now, if Republicans use the budget reconciliation process to defund Planned Parenthood as opposed to a standalone bill passed through regular means, there are limits to what they can do.
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The context: The changes had been pushed by conservatives and anti-abortion groups as a way to partially defund Planned Parenthood, which serves about 40 percent of Title X patients.
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"This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," a Trump administration official said.
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The politics: The changes had been pushed by conservatives and anti-abortion groups as a way to partially defund Planned Parenthood, which serves about 85033 percent of Title X patients.
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Anti-abortion advocates want more Republicans in the Senate so they can pass a ban on abortions after 85033 weeks, defund Planned Parenthood and approve any future Supreme Court nominees.
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The effort to defund Planned Parenthood in Texas is unlikely go forward considering that Republicans have already tried and failed to cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in other states.
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On Friday morning, Trump turned to a familiar medium — Twitter — to troll the Freedom Caucus, pointing out the "irony" of their support for a bill that would defund Planned Parenthood.
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Apart from his unsuccessful presidential bid, he is perhaps best remembered for virtually single-handedly shutting down the federal government over his party's refusal to defund the Affordable Care Act.
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In fact, as senators debated the budget resolution this week, they have focused on the merits of the coming tax bill, not spending levels and programs to fund and defund.
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Mr. Stapleton, a Republican with a commitment to the fossil fuel industry and a pledge to defund so-called sanctuary cities, has come to represent an older, more traditional West.
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Chu has filed a bill to defund the public charge rule but said "it's clear that this administration will not stop looking for any opportunity to wage war on immigrants."
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He pledged to defund Planned Parenthood, move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, end the harassment of churches by the I.R.S., withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and defend religious freedom.
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The signatories, who include one Republican who previously voted to defund public broadcasting, sent the letter to Representative Ken Calvert, Republican of California, and Representative Betty McCollum, Democrat of Minnesota.
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The Trump administration eliminated key White House positions that handled global health issues, and, while it didn't fully "defund" the CDC, the administration did cut funding to the federal agency.
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I want to fund our military, not do a Dem defund...Because of the Democrats not being interested in life and safety, DACA has now taken a big step backwards.
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I want to fund our military, not do a Dem defund.... ....Because of the Democrats not being interested in life and safety, DACA has now taken a big step backwards.
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Cruz met with House conservatives and urged them to support using a government spending bill as leverage to defund ObamaCare — a ploy that proved to be politically damaging for Republicans.
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" She praised Pence for leading the effort to defund Planned Parenthood in Congress and for signing into law "a historic bill protecting unborn children from lethal discrimination in the womb.
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The White House, concerned about the possible political repercussions of the Republican effort to defund Planned Parenthood, has proposed preserving federal payments to the group if it discontinues providing abortions.
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"This is the result of decades of work, to defund this organization we think is evil," said Ms. Dannenfelser, 51, president of Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group.
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This means the GOP has just one last chance to defund Planned Parenthood or eliminate the most unpopular elements of ObamaCare, such as the mandate on individuals to purchase insurance.
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Democrats in North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere are fighting bills meant to weaken voting rights, dismantle nondiscrimination protections and defund vital programs meant to improve people's quality of life.
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Planned Parenthood, an organization that President Trump has vowed to defund on multiple occasions, has projected that at least 62 million women are now at risk of losing contraceptive care.
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Trump is a strongman who promises a new level of political confrontation, while Cruz is a hardcore ideologue who literally shut down the government in an effort to defund Obamacare.
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When it became clear that it wasn't enough to secure the lead, Republicans made a sharp pivot; Trump's March rally for Saccone called on Congress to defund so-called sanctuary cities.
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"The folks that want to repeal healthcare and defund #PP are folks who will NEVER have to rely on it," Welch captioned a shot of Power & Light Press' tote on Instagram.
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In early December, the US Senate voted in a largely symbolic measure to defund Planned Parenthood, despite a promise from the White House that President Barack Obama would veto the bill.
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Republican members of Congress have introduced bills to defund Planned Parenthood for years, and some passed easily in the Republican-dominated House when former president Barack Obama was still in office.
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In December, Kavanaugh sided with Roberts and the court's liberals in an order, on its face not related to abortion, that dealt a setback to states seeking to defund Planned Parenthood.
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If you're inspired to act after reading this, the most important thing to do is call your senators and ask them to reject any and all efforts to "defund" Planned Parenthood.
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The social media campaign encourages citizens to show their support for women's rights by donating "in honor" of the Indiana governor, who has infamously tried to defund the non-profit organization.
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Trump's budget is already facing stiff criticism on Capitol Hill, where his desire to target foreign aid and to defund some clean water programs is drawing opposition from even some Republicans.
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That's one reason that they've focused on funding bans — like Hyde and Helms, as well as trying to defund Planned Parenthood — that have already proven effective at restricting legal abortion access.
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"This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," an administration official told Fox News .
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"This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," an administration official told Fox News.
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Even watching a video of this cat adopting a spider monkey will likely be more emotionally beneficial than keeping track of the latest ways Republicans are devising to defund Planned Parenthood.
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She told him the videos were real and came away with the impression that if she and her staff could persuade Manchin of that fact, he'd vote to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The shutdown occurred after conservative House of Representatives Republicans attempted to use the budget process to delay or defund implementation of Democratic President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
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As the GOP has promised to defund Planned Parenthood and has already taken steps towards doing so, many of us need to fight for Planned Parenthood's services now more than ever.
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The House also voted for provisions that would defund Planned Parenthood and stop federal tax credits paying for insurance plans that cover abortion — policies that almost certainly cannot pass the Senate.
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Back in March, President Trump said Planned Parenthood could keep its federal funding if it stopped offering abortions, and his budget follows through on his continued threat to defund the organization.
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Montes and Balestri may not be old enough to vote, but both teens are passionate about politics and they're deeply disturbed by Donald Trump's repeated efforts to federally defund Planned Parenthood.
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For every time that Donald Trump does something horribly destructive, like construct a budget that will defund Planned Parenthood, at least 10 good jokes land on the lips of talented comedians.
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If McConnell pushes a plan to defund Planned Parenthood and fund the border wall, it could prompt a shutdown fight -- something he has repeatedly sought to avoid since becoming majority leader.
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In the midst of the talk about Republican plans to defund Planned Parenthood, Donald Trump has made an offer to fund the health organization — provided that they halt their abortion services.
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And there's the proposal to defund the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Planned Parenthood has been a major discussion point in both the Democratic and Republican 2016 primary races, with GOP candidates criticizing Planned Parenthood and advocating for the government to defund it.
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Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will kick of 2016 with a nod to social conservatives, scheduling a floor vote on a Senate-passed bill to replace ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood.
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However, access to these critical services for millions of women is currently in jeopardy as members of the House and Senate continue to push for legislation that would defund Planned Parenthood.
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It's an attractive alternative for anti-abortion groups who are frustrated with the GOP Congress for failing to defund Planned Parenthood and are now looking to the administration to make changes.
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During the Monday night event, Bill Clinton echoed his wife's earlier condemnation ahead of House Republicans' attempt to repeal the main proponent of ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood for a year.
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The Obama administration is stepping up its warnings to states that have taken steps to defund Planned Parenthood by cutting off Medicaid funding, a move federal health officials say is illegal.
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Gay alumni of the University of Tennessee are leading an effort to privately fund the institution's Pride Center after state lawmakers voted to defund the university's Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
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Cruz, a 2016 presidential hopeful, met with House members of the conservative Freedom Caucus — an unusual move for a freshman senator — in 85033 and pushed them to fight to defund ObamaCare.
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The release of the videos, according to Planned Parenthood, was timed to coincide with Congressional proposals to defund the nonprofit health care provider, which receives $528 million in annual government funding.
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The GOP's health care overhaul also vowed to defund Planned Parenthood, which means blocking people from low-cost preventative care such as birth control, cancer screenings, and STD testing and treatment.
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"We need to do everything we can to repeal it, defund it, delay it — we need to do whatever it takes," Mr. Whitaker said of the Affordable Care Act in 2014.
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But both supporters and opponents of abortion rights cast it as a potentially significant move to try to defund medical clinics that provide abortions, such as those affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
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DeSantis proposed an amendment to the 2018 spending bill that would defund Mueller's investigation in 2017 and pushed to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversaw the investigation, Segers reported.
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" The "Late Show" host took aim at the secretary's response when asked why she would defund underperforming schools, when DeVos said that the country should invest in "students, not school buildings.
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House and Senate GOP leaders have already backed away from trying to defund Planned Parenthood or add a down payment for the U.S.-Mexico border wall in this month's spending bill.
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And several Republican senators have supported legislation threatening to defund the United Nations unless the Security Council reverses the terms of the resolution, which Council diplomats say would be politically unworkable.
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To add insult to injury, the proposed budget cuts would completely defund the environmental justice office, meant to ensure that regulations are applied equally regardless of the racial composition of communities.
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Republicans control the government of Alaska — just as they now control the US federal government — and Republicans tend to defund public services and thwart attempts to raise taxes on the wealthy.
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Democrats are promoting increases in education spending and medical research funding, and how they fended off major conservative poison pills, like efforts to defund Planned Parenthood or expand immigrant detention centers.
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No legislation to defund Planned Parenthood has ever passed, so its a bit hard to know — and even how, exactly, Planned Parenthood would lose its fund varies in different legislative proposals.
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To be clear, this vote wasn't about the big federal "defund Planned Parenthood" bill that Republicans have promised to pass at the same time as they repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Trump does not properly understand the multitude of evolving threats, and his plans to defund the very agencies tasked with protecting America's critical infrastructure will make the country less secure, said Cowan.
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" Pelosi criticized Republican lawmakers for moves to restrict access to abortions -- and told a questioner that lawmakers should increase access to family planning, birth control and contraception and not "defund Planned Parenthood.
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Effort to defund Planned Parenthood threatens Obamacare repeal Republicans have been criticized for wanting to repeal the Affordable Care Act quickly without having a clear plan on replacing what they roll back.
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As if women's health wasn't in jeopardy enough in the coming years, Texas just officially decided to defund Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program, severely limiting low-income women's access to healthcare.
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Walberg and other politicians who want to defund Planned Parenthood aren't interested in stopping abortions; they're interested in limiting women's ability to make choices about their bodies and where they get healthcare.
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Critics of the Trump administration have worried for years that the White House would make due on its promise to defund the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) when given the chance.
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Blackburn led one of those investigations, which eventually recommended that state attorneys general, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health and Human Services seek to charge and defund the organization.
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Video "This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," an administration official told Fox News.
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Oregon was one of the first states to defund higher education at this kind of extreme level, providing an opening for corporations to step in, but other states are now catching up.
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Those roles are threatened in the United States by the Trump administration's possible plan to defund the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Though many have cited the health care organization's abortion services as a reason for outrage and even to defund Planned Parenthood, the organization also provides life-saving care to millions of people.
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Access to contraception isn't the only thing that American women stand to lose if Trump follows through with his wish to defund Planned Parenthood — a nonprofit organisation which provides reproductive health services.
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In addition to opposing abortion access and Obamacare, the doctor and GOP lawmaker has repeatedly voted to defund critical health services, and questioned whether low-income women need access to birth control.
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King has long been critical of Cruz, including the Texas senator's fall 2013 efforts to defund the Affordable Care Act, which led to a federal government shutdown of more than two weeks.
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Should the Trump administration give Texas the Medicaid money it wants, it will open the door for other states to defund Planned Parenthood, too, a favorite cause of the anti-abortion right.
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Previously, Murkowski said she wouldn't vote to eliminate Medicaid expansions dollars if the Alaska Legislature wanted to keep them and wouldn't vote to defund Planned Parenthood (which the House bill does). Sen.
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Besides, the last thing I want to see is Paul Ryan wearing a pair of Crocs as he stands on the congressional floor and argues to defund Planned Parenthood and cut Medicare.
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If it weren't for the hundreds of "Defund Planned Parenthood" signs scattered everywhere, the annual March for Life in Washington, DC, could have been mistaken for a family-friendly country music festival.
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Senate Republicans' new attempts to defund a system that has lowered healthcare costs and expanded coverage for millions of Americans is bad policy, bad politics and an undemocratic assault on representative government.
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President Donald Trump has made several attempts to defund Planned Parenthood during his time in office, hoping to make good on a campaign promise of great importance to his anti-abortion constituency.
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Such storage is essential if society is ever going to be powered by 100 percent renewable energy, and developing that technology requires research—the same kind which Trump consistently threatens to defund.
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Republicans in the House have voted to delay, defund or repeal the law some 60 times, and its very nickname — ObamaCare — primes us to think of the ACA through a political lens.
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She also said that with other states also seeking to restrict access to abortions and with Republicans seeking to defund Planned Parenthood, proponents of abortions rights could not afford to let up.
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Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) is the Congressperson calling for a rider to defund the joint employer standard be included in the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
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Schumer also called the plan "on of the biggest assaults" on women's health "we've seen yet," citing cuts in funding for maternity care, mammograms and a provision to defund Planned Parenthood. Sen.
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Shortly after Texas moved to defund Planned Parenthood last year, federal officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told state officials that their attempts to cut funding would violate federal law.
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Following the actions of 24 states that have sought to defund Planned Parenthood and make women's access to abortion care impossible, Missouri's 2017 budget stamps out federal funding to the health provider.
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The department began the rule-making effort in September after more than a dozen Republican-dominated states moved in recent years to "defund" Planned Parenthood by blocking clinics from receiving public money.
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The anti-abortion movement has set its sights on Planned Parenthood for years — at least since 2007, when Mr. Pence, then an Indiana congressman, introduced the first measure to defund the organization.
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Once known as a key instigator in the failed 2013 fight to defund Obamacare, Lee has become an integral cog in the Senate GOP machinery, at least when it comes to impeachment.
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Threatened to "defund" the most populous state in the nation he governs, California, the world's sixth- largest economy, which contributes more than $350 billion in annual tax money to the federal government.
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Bannon, who currently serves as the executive chair of Breitbart News, has reportedly pushed Trump to defund Mueller's investigation as a way to restrain Mueller's probe without having to actually fire him.
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"This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," an administration official said at the time.
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Even though Christie tried to defund Planned Parenthood five times in New Jersey, he was always viewed as a moderate and unreliable Republican who cozied up with President Obama when it was convenient.
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The shutdown occurred after conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives attempted to use the budget process to delay or defund implementation of Democratic President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
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The measure would also defund Planned Parenthood for a year, even though the U.S. Senate's Office of the Parliamentarian ruled on Friday that the provision may be breaking the Senate's budget reconciliation rules.
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"In light of this information Congress needs to follow through on their commitment to defund our nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood," president of March for Life Jeanne Mancini echoed in her statement.
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As a congressman, Pence did indeed lead a crusade to defund the reproductive health organization, introducing bills that would have defunded any organization that offered abortions for three legislative sessions in a row.
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During his candidacy, Trump pledged to defund Planned Parenthood, to strengthen the discriminatory laws that prevent poor women from affording abortion care, and to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v.
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He has voted against a bill that would financially support women in STEM fields, voted in favor of allowing states to restrict access and coverage to abortions, and voted to defund Planned Parenthood.
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President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to defund Planned Parenthood, and at least 14 states have tried to pass legislation or taken administration action to prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving Title X funding.
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Two House lawmakers are pushing an amendment that would effectively defund a massive data collection program run by the National Security Agency unless the government promises to not intentionally collect data of Americans.
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"Planned Parenthood is such an important organization that helps to give health services to millions of women and families, and it's in danger — the House of Representatives voted to defund it," Janney explained.
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While efforts to reduce South Carolina's prison population stemmed from good motives, the push to defund prisons is likely contributing to recent violence, said Hannah Riley of the Southern Center for Human Rights.
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Now, Republicans in both the House and Senate have proposed healthcare legislation that would defund Planned Parenthood the same way Iowa did — by cutting it off from federal Medicaid reimbursements for a year.
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AROUND THE WEB: Republican lawmakers in Colorado failed for the second time in as many days to defund the state's planning effort to comply with the Clean Power Plan, the Denver Post reports.
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"Marco Rubio voted to defund Planned Parenthood before Ted Cruz ever got to the U.S. Senate," NRLC President Carol Tobias said in a statement to The Hill, pointing to an April 2011 vote.
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Beyond the more publicized cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency, Trump would defund programs like the Interior Department's Abandoned Mine Land grants that clean up polluted sites left behind by bankrupt coal companies.
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He opposes GOP efforts targeting Planned Parenthood, saying, "We are not going to allow the extreme right-wing to defund Planned Parenthood, we are going to expand it," and supports access to contraception.
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Last month, Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz introduced a bill in the Senate calling for the United States to defund the UN in retaliation against the recent Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements.
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The "heavily edited" recordings have been discredited and resulted in a series of indictments against the activists, but that hasn't stopped the videos from reinvigorating a Republican push to defund the health provider.
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HHS will issue a letter on Friday to state Medicaid offices rescinding 2016 guidance that the Obama administration gave after states including Indiana had tried to defund abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood.
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However, she didn't specifically mentioned the provision to defund Planned Parenthood that would force millions of its patients who depend on Medicaid to find another healthcare provider, if there's even another option nearby.
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Republicans are underfunding schools and teacher salaries, they are working to defund Planned Parenthood, and opposing increases to the minimum wage, all issues important to a majority of women, and they are resisting.
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The bill, which has been called "cruel" and "horrific," would threaten the coverage of over 24 million Americans, eviscerate protections for people with pre-existing conditions, decimate Medicaid expansions, and defund Planned Parenthood.
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That is critically important, because this back-and-forth stuff, Obama puts it on, Trump lifts it off, riders on bills to defund things on the Appropriations Committee — it's sand in the gears.
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In February, Mr. Donnelly voted for a hard-line immigration bill supported by the White House that included funding for Mr. Trump's wall, and he also voted to defund so-called sanctuary cities.
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Ryan and GOP leaders had hoped to dominate the headlines of the first week of 2016 by for the first time sending Obama legislation to repeal much of ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Budget analysts estimated that about 15 percent of women in some areas would lose health care access because of provisions to defund Planned Parenthood, and would not find an alternative source of care.
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It's worth noting that even President Bush, a born-again evangelical Christian, never tried to defund Planned Parenthood in the United States (though he did cut off funding for the group's foreign affiliates).
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The groups want Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood in a tax reform package that the GOP plans to move through the Senate under special budgetary rules that protect it from a Democratic filibuster.
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Wade, and Mike Pence was one of the first representatives in Congress to propose a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, which offers all kinds of services for women, including STD screenings and contraception.
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John Kasich has put the money where his political party's mouth is when it comes to Planned Parenthood, signing a bill Sunday that would effectively defund Ohio's branch of the health service nonprofit.
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The bill gives a big boost to military funding (a major conservative point of emphasis), but it doesn't defund Planned Parenthood — a longtime GOP promise — and adds roughly $1 trillion to the deficit.
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Trump has vowed to cancel Obama's Climate Action Plan and has threatened to pull out of or defund the Paris Climate Agreement, a landmark international accord aimed at reducing mankind's impact on global warming.
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At the federal level, the executive and legislative branches' effort to defund Planned Parenthood and other medical centers that provide abortion services illustrates just how little regard there is for women's healthcare in general.
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The role of religion in political debate, perhaps best exemplified by Mr. Cruz's courting of evangelical voters with vows to defund Planned Parenthood, is baffling for a country that stakes its identity on secularism.
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President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have long vowed to defund the organization because it also provides abortions, although no federal funds are allowed to pay for abortions already, with exceedingly rare exceptions.
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"You could have a scenario here where the Republicans defund Obamacare, and they're unable to get 60 votes," and Congress temporarily maintains funding for ACA programs by a series of continuing resolutions, he said.
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For the six years they ran the House before President Donald Trump arrived on the scene, Republicans voted repeatedly -- more than 50 times -- to either fully repeal, defund or in some way undermine Obamacare.
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But it merely bought Planned Parenthood and its advocates more time — House Speaker Paul Ryan and his Republican colleagues have made clear they'll continue the fight to federally defund the women's health care organization.
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" And Trump pointed to Cruz's 21-hour protest on the Senate floor in fall 2013 -- in an unsuccessful bid to defund the Affordable Care Act -- as proof that "Ted cannot get along with anybody.
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We can all agree that it is a good thing for them to use their fame to spotlight the troubles that Planned Parenthood has been experiencing under a legislature who wish to defund it.
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Since then, conservatives have fought to use the threat of a government default as leverage for moving items on their legislative wish list, including long-failed efforts to repeal ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood.
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"The framework is driving the curriculum too much," says State Senator William T. Ligon Jr. of Georgia, who sponsored a resolution, still pending, to defund and withdraw the course from schools in his state.
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Carlson told Die Weltwoche, a weekly magazine in Switzerland,, that Trump's "chief promises" were that he would build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, defund Planned Parenthood and repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Strickland and his allies will highlight Portman's multiple votes to repeal or defund ObamaCare, and along with it a special program to make it easier for miners to receive benefits for black-lung disease.
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SHARPENING ATTACKS PART II: The Hill's Peter Sullivan reports: Hillary Clinton is blasting her GOP rivals ahead of votes in the House this week to repeal the core of ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood.
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President Trump viewed the now-dead Republican healthcare bill as "an opportunity to defund" Planned Parenthood, according to press secretary Sean Spicer, who wouldn't say whether the president would demand defunding in future legislation.
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"Republican lawmakers have seized on the doctored, manufactured videotapes to justify votes to defund Planned Parenthood and to launch a series of Congressional and state investigations," Schakowsky wrote in a statement to The Hill.
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But Democrats see it the other way around, arguing Trump's actions to defund Planned Parenthood and roll back ObamaCare's contraception mandate are going to hurt, not help, Republican candidates on the ballot in November.
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Greg Abbott began the quest to defund Planned Parenthood last October, in response to undercover videos filmed by an anti-abortion activist group showed Planned Parenthood employees discussing selling fetal tissue for medical research.
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Trump has said abortion should be largely banned and has pledged to defund Planned Parenthood, a healthcare provider that draws the ire of many Republicans because it provides abortions, in addition to other services.
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The changes would take months to finalize, but it marks the administration's latest attempt to "defund" Planned Parenthood, which serves 41 percent of the 4 million people who use Title X services every year.
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"[Sessions] has fought against women's rights and women's equality, voted against paycheck fairness, the Violence Against Women Act, voted to defund Planned Parenthood, and questioned the constitutional legitimacy of Roe V. Wade," she said.
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Austin: I think they'll do it because they so thoroughly own the idea of repeal, having passed bills to repeal, partly repeal, delay or defund the A.C.A. in the House something like 60 times.
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But in the months since — as startling images emerged from the border of migrant children separated from their parents — the call to abolish or defund the agency has gained momentum in the midterm campaigns.
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She decided to defund a theater that put on a play about a Palestinian who killed an Israeli soldier — and the attorney general reversed her decision on the grounds that it limited free expression.
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There's a proposed boycott of Harry Potter books and movies, with a reminder that J. K. Rowling tweeted that Voldemort was "nowhere near as bad" as Mr. Trump, and a proposal to defund NPR.
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Trump has since moved to dismantle the U.S. Clean Power Plan (CPP), open up federal lands to fossil fuel exploration, reduce vehicle emissions standards and generally defund and de-emphasize environmental regulation and enforcement.
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With Republicans in control of both Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, the healthcare bill represents the party's best shot to defund the organization after years of trying.
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In the Senate, Mr. Sessions proposed a measure to defund Mr. Obama's executive action on immigration, and he supported a ban on all undocumented immigrants, a proposal that had scant support even among Republicans.
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Iowa Republicans have advanced a bill to defund Planned Parenthood; Missouri legislators have filed a barrage of anti-abortion bills, including one that would ban the procedure entirely, in defiance of the Supreme Court.
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Abortion access Griffis described Lipinski's votes as a "rubber stamp" for the Trump administration, which has taken several actions its first year to support the anti-abortion movement, including attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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"So this morning I'm announcing that if the Trump administration moves forward with this fake climate panel, we will be introducing legislation to defund it," Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor.
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It is also no surprise that Mr. Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, earned a zero rating from Planned Parenthood, an organization he'd like to defund, despite its role in providing preventive health services.
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Other anti-abortion groups, including Students for Life and March for Life, which organizes a march on D.C. every year to protest abortion, are pushing for Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood through tax reform.
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Mick Mulvaney, the president's budget director, said at a news conference on Thursday that President Trump had "completely defensible" reasons for wanting to "defund" the two endowments, along with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Meanwhile, Trump had some immigration priorities of his own, including fully funding for the border wall and his call for Congress to defund "sanctuary cities," is only getting a small par of his ask.
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The House just passed a new healthcare bill with Trump's support that would defund Planned Parenthood and since it's gotten to the Senate, not one female lawmaker has been asked to help amend it.
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Even as some campuses push back — Governor Greg Abbott of Texas declared in a tweet that he would defund any state university that declares itself a sanctuary campus — the movement appears to have only grown.
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Yet even if Mr Whitaker were to defund or undermine Mr Mueller's team, New York's attorney-general could continue digging, as could the House, when it reconvenes with a Democratic majority in January (see Lexington).
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In the span of the past week alone, the GOP has moved to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) and House Speaker Paul Ryan confirmed that Republicans plan to defund Planned Parenthood.
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And he appointed Mike Pence to be his vice president, the governor best known for his plan to defund AIDS research and support conversion therapy, a dangerous practice since denounced by the American Medical Association.
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They rallied around its provision to defund Planned Parenthood while turning a blind eye to the fact that this will lead mothers and their children, people with disabilities, and many more towards death or devastation.
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Though the request takes aim primarily at Planned Parenthood — which serves over 40% of the patients that receive care through the Title X federal family planning grant program — it does not entirely "defund" the organization.
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Many said that ultimately they knew Sinema had the best chance of winning and not supporting her was not worth the risk of electing McSally, who had already voted eight times to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Shortly before making a speech at Georgetown University, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told reporters that a letter sent on Tuesday to state Medicaid agencies makes clear that efforts to defund her group are illegal.
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That is a much harder question, he said, because while it takes just 51 votes in the Senate to defund Obamacare, it will take 60 votes to replace it because such bills require that supermajority.
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More than two years later, the fight to force the White House's hand to defund Obamacare that left both Republican leadership and federal employees seething has faded into the background, rather than Cruz's calling card.
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The network reminded us of those promises in another video for the campaign, in which they call out Trump for first claiming to spend money on women's health, and then threatening to defund the organization.
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Gary PalmerGary James PalmerHouse passes sweeping budget, debt limit deal Palmer's Paris agreement bashing lacks policy basis Tensions rise during GOP leadership meeting over dues MORE (R-Ala.) would defund the EPA's Criminal Enforcement Division.
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Republicans in the Senate last took aim at the organization in May 2017, when their proposed legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act included a measure to defund Planned Parenthood for a year.
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In addition, the poll found 69 percent of respondents said they would like their state to continue making payments to Planned Parenthood amid attempts by conservatives in a number of states to defund the clinics.ADVERTISEMENT
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"Marco Rubio should have stood with conservatives to use Congress's power of the purse to defund Planned Parenthood in the spending bill last September," Cruz spokesman Brian Phillips said in a statement to The Hill.
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In addition, the poll found 69 percent of respondents said they would like their state to continue making payments to Planned Parenthood amid attempts by conservatives in a number of states to defund the clinics.
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Trump is attempting to defund the most important of these energy research programs, proposing 72-percent cuts in clean energy programs overall, but a few key Republicans have joined Democrats in protecting them, thus far.
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Practically speaking, Heller's support (or not) for Planned Parenthood will only count if Republicans manage to resuscitate Trumpcare, as that's the only legislative vehicle that people think can be used to defund the abortion provider.
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In the Senate, the drive to oppose and defund civilian trials for accused terrorists has long been led by the Republicans Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
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On the other, they know any effort to defund Planned Parenthood would never win President Obama's signature, and they won't want to risk a government shutdown just a month before a high-stakes presidential election.
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But now, President Trump has asked in his 2018 budget to defund the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which since 2010 has provided millions of dollars in federal funds to clean up and protect the lakes.
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Wanted to defund HIV/AIDs funding in favor of "conversion therapy" Pence's words on LGBTQ issues are controversial enough on their own, but some of his proposals have frightened many within the community as well.
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Vice President Pence touted the provision during a rally at a Focus on the Family event in Colorado, noting he cast the tie-breaking vote to allow states to defund Planned Parenthood earlier this year.
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"I believe there are still many unanswered questions remaining about her tangled finances, potential conflicts of interest and plans to privatize and defund public education," said Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the committee's top Democrat.
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Health experts expect a G.O.P. push to defund such women's health clinics, by barring Medicaid reimbursements or other federal funds from going to them, and by cutting or redirecting the Title X family planning program.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed Tuesday to defund a climate science panel the White House is looking to create, calling it "fake" and criticizing Republican leaders for their positions on climate change.
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Mr. Trump has threatened to defund California, calling it "out of control," and the Democrat-controlled Legislature has hired Eric H. Holder Jr., a former United States attorney general, to lead the state's legal challenge.
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A senior administration official told The Hill Wednesday that if the GOP attaches an amendment to the spending bill for energy and water programs to defund the Clean Water Rule, Obama would veto the legislation.
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That is the message the House of Representatives sent Thursday in voting to pass H.J. Resolution 43 to disapprove of the Obama administration's effort to undermine state efforts to defund the country's largest abortion chain.
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They will get to decide the fate of laws like the seven total or near-total abortion bans that have passed in 2019 alone, as well as federal and state measures to "defund" Planned Parenthood.
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After his election to the Senate, in 22008, he championed the Tea Party's most high-profile causes, such as stopping bipartisan immigration reform and shutting down the government in a doomed effort to defund Obamacare.
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If he wants to change the story, and at the same time provide real support for survivors of domestic violence, the president has an opportunity at his fingertips: Defend, don't defund, the Legal Services Corporation.
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On plenty of matters, she's successfully dragged the governor to the right with her, as the Arkansas Times documented: Hutchinson has attacked "transgender" bathrooms and said he wants to defund Planned Parenthood, just for starters.
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It's a doubly important task for the company because for one, Donald Trump wants to defund any climate change efforts and two, the money from the NASA deal could go toward funding Musk's Mars ambitions.
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And earlier this year Kasich signed a bill to ban the state from contracting for health services with any organization that performs or promotes abortions -- a measure widely seen as a way to defund Planned Parenthood.
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To that end, Ryan made clear that the only appropriate way to defund Planned Parenthood -- a key issue of principle for conservatives -- is on a future bill like health care, rather than on federal funding legislation.
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President Trump promised on the campaign trail to defund the organization, and House Speaker Paul Ryan recently announced that his conference will seek to do that as part of its repeal of the health care law.
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Washington (CNN)A push by Republican congressional leaders to defund Planned Parenthood could threaten passage of their top-priority legislation to repeal Obamacare because of opposition to the anti-abortion provision by two key GOP senators.
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And earlier this year, Kasich signed a bill to ban the state from contracting for health services with any organization that performs or promotes abortions -- a measure widely seen as a way to defund Planned Parenthood.
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While the report can be seen as a step forward in many ways, abortion-rights leaders warn that things could change as the new administration plans to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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And here's their playbook: 'We're gonna defund Planned Parenthood, because we don't think that those services are necessary, because women and children can go to the community health centers and get the same type of care.
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It's why Congress sent Trump a spending bill that didn't defund sanctuary cities, which was the White House's initial line in the sand for threatening a veto: They thought Trump would back down, and he did.
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Kelli Arthur Hykes, the director of public health policy at Columbus Public Health (CPH), told Vox this bill could effectively defund her local health department, which serves Ohio's most populous city and its nearly 800,000 residents.
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Meanwhile, in Canada, a majority of the House of Commons recently voted to condemn the movement, while the legislature in Ontario briefly considered — but ultimately voted down — a movement to defund universities that support the initiative.
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From the GOP threats to defund Planned Parenthood, to Trump's all-male meetings to discuss women's health care, to his executive order to roll back women's protections from pay discrimination and in cases of sexual harassment.
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After a series of immigration raids in cities that limit immigration enforcement — including New York, Austin, and Los Angeles — tensions are escalating between the Trump administration and sanctuary jurisdictions the president has repeatedly threatened to defund.
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Trump's proposal to defund programs to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and the Great Lakes, two of the country's largest water systems, bring scorn from a bipartisan array of lawmakers who vow to fight the cuts.
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Leaders of the religious right who supported Trump say they see him delivering on his promises and welcomed plans to defund Planned Parenthood, whose healthcare services for women include abortion, through the proposed repeal of Obamacare.
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Fifty-four percent said they would be less likely to vote for their GOP representative if they voted to defund Planned Parenthood, compared with 22019 percent who said they would be more likely to support them.
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In February, the House voted to allow states to defund Planned Parenthood, and more recently they passed a new bill to repeal and replace Obamacare that would prohibit federal payments to Planned Parenthood for a year.
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They are traps to defund providers, like Planned Parenthood, that believe in providing patients — no matter who they are or what their income level — compassionate, unbiased information about the full spectrum of sexual and reproductive care.
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It's hinted that it's going to define "sanctuary cities" more broadly in future — in other words, that it's going to find a way to defund local governments for refusing to help federal agents pick up immigrants.
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Beginning with the inauguration of Donald Trump, the year saw an escalation of the Republican Party's attacks on women, including efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, undermine women's legal and reproductive rights and slash essential health benefits.
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The governor tried to remove professors whom he considered elitists, defund expensive research labs and measure the productivity of faculty members on spreadsheets so that they could be paid according to the revenue they brought in.
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The federal government shut down for nearly three weeks back in 2013, as Republicans tried to force Obama to defund his own health care law — a shutdown that took a real material toll on the economy.
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It would deprive an estimated 10 million low-income Americans, many of them nursing home residents, of Medicaid benefits; it would also defund Planned Parenthood, reducing or ending health services to 2.5 million people, mainly women.
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The House Appropriations Committee has included language in a spending bill to defund IRS efforts to enforce the Johnson amendment, but it is not clear whether that effort will make it through the House and Senate.
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After the university's student body president threatened to defund the paper amid media attention, including nationally from Fox News, the newspaper's editorial board released a statement on Thursday conceding the column should have never been published.
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The president's relationship with artists has been strained since some, expressing opposition to his policies, declined to play at his inauguration, and more spoke out against his calls to defund the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Ryan mentioned that Republicans will use an arcane process called "reconciliation" in order to defund the group, which allows lawmakers to bypass the regular legislative process on certain issues having to do with spending and taxes.
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The provisions that might not qualify include Republicans' plan to encourage healthy people to buy insurance — crucial to spreading the risk around and making insurance markets work — and perhaps even the provision to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Yet, as Congress conspires to defund Planned Parenthood and confirm Supreme Court Justices hostile to abortion access, the right to choose may only become more precarious for Americans, particularly those living in poverty or far from cities.
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On Wednesday, these 18 states made moves to set up pro-choice legislation in an effort to counter the government's decisions to repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood, solidify the Hyde Amendment, and reinstate the Mexico City Policy.
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Rabid for repeal, they hatched a clever "repeal and delay" strategy for immediately passing a budget reconciliation bill, which Democratic Senators cannot filibuster, to defund the ACA as soon as they figure out how to replace it.
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Imagine California Attorney General Xavier Becerra declining to bring a suit against the federal government's attempt to defund "sanctuary cities" because it would reinforce the narrative of urban versus rural division his party was trying to transcend.
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"I know House and Senate Republicans are so eager to defund Planned Parenthood, so it just felt so perfect to me to turn his words against him and to raise money from something he said," Rudinski explains.
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At a time when Republicans in Congress are still trying to defund Planned Parenthood after dozens of failed attempts, it's a meaningful sign that more and more high profile celebrities are showing up to support abortion rights.
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Hometown and ethnic pride leak into his conversations; he likes to say he'll give the Trump Administration a "Youngstown street fight" if the president-elect aims to defund Planned Parenthood or offer the wealthy significant tax cuts.
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Federal funding for Planned Parenthood is under attack, but one state has pledged that business will continue as usual — even if President Trump and a Republican-led Congress are successful in their attempts to defund the organization.
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And even though two-thirds of voting age adults support wide access to reproductive health care and pregnancy prevention, the Trump administration plans to defund a national teen pregnancy prevention program, returning to abstinence-only sex education.
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Compassionate conservatives would argue that they didn't defund child day-care centers because they wanted to put working women under pressure, but because they felt incentives for businesses and churches to provide them would be more effective.
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Hamm, Jennifer Lawrence, Aidy Bryant, Brie Larson, Amy Poehler, Padma Lakshmi, Gloria Steinem, and others made a video telling everyone to call their senators and tell them to oppose any and all attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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In addition to his instructions to attorneys on federal charges, Sessions has led the effort to define — and defund — "sanctuary cities" that don't do as much as the administration would like to help enforce federal immigration law.
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Bob BradyRobert (Bob) A. BradyIt's time to defund the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen Philadelphia Dem power broker indicted Americans connect with government at the library – so fix the Federal Depository Library Program MORE (D-Pa.).
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David KustoffDavid Frank KustoffTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid GOP to launch discharge petition on anti-BDS measure It's time to defund the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen MORE (R) and former Rep.
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A staunch anti-abortion conservative, in 2011 Mr. Pence led House Republicans' efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, which helped convince many Americans that Congress would rather engage in partisan brinkmanship than work on solving the country's problems.
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Fortunately, many members of Congress understand the nature of Daleiden's work and have been working persistently to defund the largest abortion provider in the country, due to the gruesome, unethical practices he uncovered at Planned Parenthood locations.
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Rather than soberly debate the merits of individual government programs and fund (or defund) them appropriately, Congress is widely expected to pass — after only perfunctory debate — an omnibus spending bill that would fund government through Sept. 28500.
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In fact, whether it's a global gag order blocking U.S. aid to non-governmental organizations that promote or offer abortion, or increasing efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, access to abortion faces increased challenges under the Trump administration.
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But the real perpetrators of the broader assault on workers are the billionaires and corporations who have spent fortunes over many years to defund unions and consequently make it harder for working people to receive fair wages.
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Lipinski has a long anti-abortion record, from opposing the Affordable Care Act and its mandate that employers cover birth control to voting to defund health clinics that offered abortion services and banning abortions at 20 weeks.
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Congress has the power to fund or defund federal organizations, not the executive branch, and giving the Trump administration the ability to use Congress's powers to punish organizations who violate their rule is unconstitutional, the judge found.
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Although we fully funded the U.S. military, we did not fully fund the border wall, border security, nor did we defund sanctuary cities and Planned Parenthood – priorities that my constituents sent me to Washington to fight for.
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Previously, he sponsored a bill to defund Planned Parenthood in Indiana and arbitrarily require abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges and provide misinformation to women who want an abortion, which was also successfully challenged in court. Rep.
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This week, Republicans took the first step toward dismantling the Affordable Care Act: the Senate passed a budget resolution that says the best way to take a chunk out of the federal budget deficit is to defund Obamacare.
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Not only did his decision to defund Planned Parenthood and its HIV screening programs help contribute to Indiana's HIV crisis but he also arguably prolonged the crisis by waiting two months to authorize a clean needle distribution plan.
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"Building a border wall, ending illegal immigration and enforcing U.S. laws will reduce poverty, defund the cartels and increase wages, prosperity and safety on both sides of the U.S. border," Trump senior policy advisor Stephen Miller told CNN.
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With Indiana Governor Mike Pence heading to the White House as Donald Trump's vice president, concern for the future of Planned Parenthood, which Pence spent his career trying to defund, is at a high among pro-choice supporters.
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The prospect of political pain also failed to defuse a bitter political standoff over a Republican attempt to defund Obamacare in 2013 when the government closed for 16 days in the first such shutdown for nearly 20 years.
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Supporters of Meals on Wheels showered the nonprofit organization in online donations — over $33,000 over a two-day period — in response to the White House's budget proposal to defund dozens of social programs, the nonprofit organization said Saturday.
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