Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., slammed President Biden for steering the U.S. to the more to the left despite campaigning as a moderate, in light of Democrats' push to eliminate the Hyde Amendment. First passed in 1977, the Hyde Amendment to Medicaid prohibits federal tax dollars from being used to fund abortions, except in cases where the woman's life is in danger – exceptions for cases of rape or incest were later added. McConnell noted that while the White House's budget request called for scrapping this, Biden supported the Hyde Amendment in the past. He let the demands of the increasingly radical left overcome a principle he had held literally for decades." McConnell went on to say that Biden's newfound opposition to the Hyde Amendment is "yet another way in which the administration has sold itself as moderate and unifying" but "is now spiraling way, way to the left."

Source: Fox News July 15, 2021 18:00 UTC