Conservatives Balk at House GOP Leadership Plan

“Republican leaders who are eyeing a rarely-deployed, fast-track budget procedure as a way to defund Planned Parenthood and stave off a government shutdown appear to be in for a rude awakening,” Politico reports.

“The idea is aimed at placating conservatives by giving them a way to pass legislation to strip Planned Parenthood of its funding and decouple the issue from the entire federal budget. But conservatives are balking at the proposal to use the majority-vote reconciliation process, calling it a ‘ruse’ that, in the end, would leave Planned Parenthood’s federal funding intact and amount to little more than a feel-good exercise.”