The Hill reports that Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said this morning that the GOP should “move on” from defunding Planned Parenthood in the current spending bill:
“I’d like to defund Planned Parenthood, but I understand that Republicans don’t have complete control of the elected government,” Toomey said on MSNBC. “I think what we should do is cut spending as much as we can, get the policy changes that we can, but move on, because there are other, bigger battles that we are fighting.”
Toomey said it would be his preference to defund Planned Parenthood, but acknowledged that Democratic control of the Senate meant that such a measure, attached to the House-passed spending bill, made it unlikely to pass. To that end, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that it would be nearly “impossible” to prevent a shutdown unless the riders are dropped.
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