Democrats are selling a line that ideological riders are the only thing preventing them from backing the Republicans’ temporary spending bill that would prevent a government shutdown. The problem with this narrative is that it isn’t true. John McCormack was on the Hill yesterday, and shared this over at our sister publication, The Weekly Standard:

[T]he GOP one-week CR/troop-funding bill doesn’t include the rider regarding “clean air”—i.e. EPA regulations of carbon dioxide emissions—and it doesn’t include the Pence amendment banning contraceptive funding for abortion provider Planned Parenthood. 

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