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While the government is shut down, Republicans are debating another budget issue: whether a military appropriations bill should include coverage for in vitro fertilization for military personnel . At the moment, military members have coverage only for service-related infertility . Democrats battled to ensure that the House version of the bill, which passed last month , would expand access to cover all causes of infertility. With the IVF measure now under discussion in closed-door Senate meetings, the provision’s Democratic sponsors are hoping that President Donald Trump and the GOP members of Congress won’t scupper the proposal—as House Speaker Mike Johnson d

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