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.