{"id":69582,"date":"2015-08-05T12:05:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=69582"},"modified":"2015-08-05T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:05:20","slug":"cruz-trump-shut-government-defund-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cruz-trump-shut-government-defund-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz and Trump: Shut down government to defund Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Republican presidential candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/08\/04\/ted-cruz-we-should-shut-down-government-if-necessary-to-de-fund-planned-parenthood\/\">Ted Cruz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/08\/donald-trump-government-shutdown-planned-parenthood-120981.html\">Donald Trump<\/a> have endorsed shutting down the federal government if necessary to defund Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, \u201cI think you have to in this case,\u201d suggesting that withholding the funds for ObamaCare only <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-obamacare-funding-clears-house-with-majority-gop-support\/\">failed in 2013<\/a> because \u201cRepublicans decided not to stick together and they left a few people out there like Ted Cruz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cruz, meanwhile, called for using \u201cevery and any procedural tool available\u201d to defund Planned Parenthood, and argued that a shutdown\u2014which would happen if the president refused to sign an appropriations bill to fund government operations because he deemed the absence of Planned Parenthood subsidies unacceptable\u2014would be the fault of the abortion giant\u2019s defenders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that is an excellent question for you to ask every Democrat,\u201d he said, \u201cif they\u2019re willing to try to shut down the government in order to force continued taxpayer funding for an organization that has now been caught on film apparently repeatedly admitting to multiple felonies in buying and selling body parts in direct contravention of federal criminal law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, eighteen House Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/07\/31\/18-house-republicans-pledge-to-shut-down-government-if-planned-parenthood-not-de-funded\/\">signed a letter<\/a> to House GOP leadership calling on them to oppose any funding bill that includes tax dollars for Planned Parenthood. Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2015\/08\/05\/mcconnell-says-no-shutdown-senate-finance-to-release-irs-report-and-how-a-tax-cut-could-pay-for-itself\/\">Mitch McConnell<\/a>, Senate Majority Whip <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/250213-cornyn-no-shutdown-over-planned-parenhood\">John Cornyn<\/a>, and Kentucky Senator &amp; presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/08\/03\/politics\/senate-planned-parenthood-defunding-legislation\/\">Rand Paul<\/a> have expressed unwillingness to risk a government shutdown to defund the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have endorsed shutting down the federal government if necessary to defund Planned Parenthood. Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, \u201cI think you have to in this case,\u201d suggesting that withholding the funds for ObamaCare only failed in 2013 because \u201cRepublicans decided not to stick together and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":69599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[3581,19,4176,3885,131,2804,14,31,615,36,3908],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cruz and Trump: Shut down government to defund Planned Parenthood - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have endorsed shutting down the federal government if necessary to defund Planned Parenthood.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cruz-trump-shut-government-defund-planned-parenthood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cruz and Trump: Shut down government to defund Planned Parenthood - 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