Budget negotiations are set to heat up after Congress’s August recess. Some Republicans are planning to use the power of the purse to combat “woke” policies with
new budget riders
, while the left is taking aim at “legacy riders”—including those that have long limited funding for abortion-related activities at home and abroad. One of those legacy riders includes language originally championed by the man who now occupies the White House. The “
Biden Amendment
” has long limited abortion-related spending abroad, but its future is uncertain—especially as its namesake continues a long march away from his earlier anti-abortion positions.
