New Speaker Confronts GOP Divide on Abortion Pills

“Newly elected speaker Mike Johnson will swiftly face a test of his ability to resolve an intense intra-GOP fight,” Politico reports.

“A majority of the House Republican conference backs a provision in the food and agriculture funding bill that would ban mail delivery of abortion pills nationwide, with some hard-liners even pledging to oppose any version without it. But a handful of Republican centrists who face tough reelection bids next year say federal curbs on mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill, are ‘a non-starter.’”

“The impasse threatens to derail Johnson’s pledge to pass all 12 government spending bills while avoiding a shutdown. Government funding is set to run out in mid-November.”