Republican Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted Monday afternoon for a movement to waive a finances level of order towards an modification that may strike a bit of the GOP megabill to bar Deliberate Parenthood well being facilities from receiving Medicaid funding for providers offered to low-income girls throughout the nation.
Collins and Murkowski have been the one two Republicans to vote for the movement, which was sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Democrats warned that reducing off Medicaid funding would put 200 well being facilities throughout the nation susceptible to closing.
Murray hoped to supply an modification to strip the Deliberate Parenthood-related provision from the invoice however she first wanted to beat a procedural objection to the invoice.
Republicans blocked her movement in a 51-49 vote. She wanted 60 votes to beat the objection.
“It will take another step towards enacting Republicans’ plan for a Backdoor Nationwide Abortion Ban. How does it do this? By defunding Planned Parenthood,” Murray mentioned.
“This is a long-sought goal of anti-choice extremists—no surprise, it is overwhelmingly unpopular with the American people,” she added.
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Senate Republicans added the supply, Part 7115, again into the invoice after the Senate parliamentarian initially dominated it violated the Senate’s Byrd Rule, which determines what laws is eligible to cross with a simple-majority vote beneath finances reconciliation.
Republicans modified the timing of the “defunding” from 10 years to at least one 12 months to fulfill the parliamentarian’s necessities.
Nathan Weixel contributed.
