Republicans proposed a bill that the Democrats rejected because it still contained three “poison pill” riders: the money could not be used for Planned Parenthood; the money would come out of the Affordable Care Act; and the bill would lift a ban against the Confederate flag at military veteran cemeteries. One could understand and agree or not on the ideology driving the first two riders. But tacking on permission to fly the Confederate flag at military veteran cemeteries to a spending bill aimed at preventing devastating disease in babies…Really?
