The government shutdown may be over, but Republicans and Democrats are now divided over whether Obamacare subsidies should be subject to abortion funding restrictions if Congress agrees to extend them.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said last week that any bipartisan deal on subsidies would have to include language similar to the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortion except in the narrow circumstances of rape, incest, or life-threatening complications for the mother.

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Thune said that “without Hyde protections,” a

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