Democrats said the GOP provision was a steppingstone to instituting more abortion bans across the nation, while Republicans argued it merely preserved a long-standing ban against allowing federal funds to be used to pay for abortions.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jen Kiggans, a minivan-driving mom and Navy veteran, narrowly won election last year in her suburban Virginia swing district after a fiercely competitive race that focused on her opposition to abortion rights.
“Taxpayers should not be paying for elective surgery,” Kiggans, who ran as a moderate focused on kitchen-table economic issues, said in an interview Friday, explaining her vote. “This wasn’t a bill about abortion; it was about taxpayers paying for travel for military members for elective procedures.
“For the swing districts they represent, they should be doing the opposite — but they’re not,” said Courtney Rice, communications director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Their decision to put party politics over pocketbook issues is going to cost them the House in 2024.” “They made the decision that it was more important to them to get this bill out of the House than to fall on their sword on this one,” she said. “They would have preferred these amendments didn’t exist, but I think they can defend their vote because they’re supporting the men and women of the military.”
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