Biden Releases 2023 Budget Allowing Taxpayer Funding for Abortion

Biden Releases 2023 Budget Allowing Taxpayer Funding for Abortion

President Biden released a proposed budget Monday that, for the second straight year, omits bipartisan language prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion. The proposed $5.8 trillion 2023 budget fails to include the Hyde Amendment, a legislative provision dating to the 1970s that prohibits government money from being used for abortions. It originally passed a Democratic-controlled House and Senate just a few years after Roe v. Wade. Every president since then, including Democratic Presidents Obama and Clinton, signed budgets into law with Hyde language.

 

Biden Releases 2023 Budget Allowing Taxpayer Funding for Abortion