From Politico:
President Donald Trump stunned conservative Republicans Tuesday when he directed them to be “flexible” on abortion coverage issues in ongoing health care talks — a nonstarter in the negotiations for hard-liners and scores of other GOP lawmakers. “You have to be a little flexible on Hyde, you know that. You gotta be a little flexible. You gotta work something … we’re all big fans of everything. But you have to have flexibility,” Trump told House Republicans during remarks at the GOP conference’s daylong policy meeting Tuesday.
Asked for his reaction on Capitol Hill, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla), a lead proponent of Hyde protections, replied: “I’m not flexible on the value of every child’s life. Children are valuable, and so I’d have to get up to the context of what he meant by that.” [Pro-life] groups have been intensely vocal, threatening Republicans to not back any effort to leave out Hyde protections in a health care deal.
