{"id":9537,"date":"2026-01-06T23:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/trump-republicans-flexible-abortion-restrictions-health-care-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:03:57","slug":"trump-republicans-flexible-abortion-restrictions-health-care-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/trump-republicans-flexible-abortion-restrictions-health-care-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Republicans to be \u2018flexible\u2019 on abortion restrictions to get a health care deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Trump tells Republicans to be \u2018flexible\u2019 on abortion restrictions to get a health care deal<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0said Tuesday he wants Republicans to reach a deal on health care insurance assistance by being willing to bend on a 50-year-old budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/abortion\">abortion services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be a little flexible\u201d on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/united-states-presidential-election-90e629ff016a4e3d98e7be9c149f5c73\">the Hyde Amendment<\/a>, Trump told House Republicans as they gathered in Washington for a caucus retreat to open the midterm election year. \u201cYou gotta be a little flexible. You gotta work something. You gotta use ingenuity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/06\/trump-republicans-flexible-abortion-restrictions-health-care-deal\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Associated Press<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/06\/trump-republicans-flexible-abortion-restrictions-health-care-deal\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump tells Republicans to be \u2018flexible\u2019 on abortion restrictions to get a health care deal President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0said Tuesday he wants Republicans to reach a deal on health care insurance assistance by being willing to bend on a 50-year-old budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on\u00a0abortion services. \u201cYou have to be a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2316,2177,2288,2151,2144],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-donald-trump","category-health-insurance","category-policy","category-politics","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}