House Republicans are likely to amend the Senate-passed bill that would allow the District of Columbia to avoid a $1.1 billion budget cut to make clear that a legacy anti-abortion rider is still in effect, House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said Tuesday.
The House GOP wants to make sure the so-called Dornan amendment — a decades-old rider that prevents the D.C. government from funding abortion coverage for Medicaid beneficiaries using local tax revenue — is explicitly retained in the bill.
President Donald Trump has called on the House to pass the Senate’s version of the bill “immediately,” as the full-year continuing resolution did not include language needed to allow the D.C. government to spend up to its fiscal 2025 budget, instead of reverting back to fiscal 2024 levels.
