Republicans Confirm: We Will Not Back Down on Hyde, No Tax-Funded Abortions

GOP lawmakers and pro-life groups are strongly pushing back against a suggestion by President Donald Trump Tuesday that House Republicans should be “a little flexible” during health care legislation negotiations on the Hyde Amendment, a bipartisan provision protecting tax dollars from funding abortions that has been renewed annually for the last 50 years.

During the president’s remarks at a day-long House Republican policy meeting, Trump discussed the possibility of a potential health care...