A growing number of House Republicans are involved in an effort to remove language from an annual spending bill restricting access to abortion pills, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The bloc has the numbers to kill legislation to fund the Department of Agriculture, where language about the pills is buried, and further heightens the risk of a government shutdown.
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Abortion bans are polling extremely poorly, even among Republicans. With the margin in the House as thin as it is, this is way too controversial an issue for them to try to ram through. There aren’t many, but there are a few loosely pro-choice Republicans, and it’s enough to sink measures like this.
