James Lankford: “My Democratic colleagues stripped [the Hyde Amendment] out…”

“… to the Senate to say, no, let's include the Hyde Amendment in this like we do every other part of our healthcare agreement. When it came to this body, though, My Democratic colleagues stripped [the Hyde Amendment] out [of the Affordable Care Act]. and they included in a different section saying, no, we're actually going to create a workaround around the Hyde Amendment so that we can quietly fund elective abortion for the first time with federal tax dollars.” (05:24–05:27)

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