A shutdown over spending or abortion? [View All]

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This is how they are going to turn it against the Democrats - not mention all the other things and pick out this one rider they have tagged on. Not that it isn't enough to stop the process but that they twist this to keep their fundy Right to Birth creeps.

Carrie Dann writes:Republicans and Democrats remained locked in a budget impasse Friday morning, with both sides identifying different sticking points that are preventing a deal to fund the federal government.

A shutdown over spending or abortion? Two sides disagree
With just over 12 hours until the deadline to pass a funding measure or shut the government down, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to a quarrel over funding women’s health centers as the reason for the continuing standoff, while House Speaker John Boehner said flatly that only differences over spending levels remain between the two warring sides.

Democrats have painted the conflict as one solely over the abortion issue, arguing that Republicans refuse to drop their push to scrap funding for Planned Parenthood even at risk of a shutdown.

Boehner disputed that Friday morning.

“There is only one reason that we do not have an agreement as yet and that issue is spending,” Boehner told the press in brief remarks.

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