U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Kiran Ahuja regarding the Biden administration’s potential violation of the Hyde Amendment. Last week, and in response to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, OPM released guidance for federal employees to use sick leave to cross state lines to “access medical care.” (RELATED: Biden Calls for Suspending Filibuster to Guarantee Abortion Access)
“The Biden Administration’s actions and statements over the last several days are focused on undermining pro-life states and now they are even willing to violate longstanding federal law prohibiting the use of taxpayer monies to fund abortions or abortion services,” Rubio wrote. “The federal government has no business promoting the killing of unborn children. I demand that the agency clarify that the federal government will not provide sick leave for travel related to abortion services.” (RELATED: White House May Open Abortion Clinics in Red States)
The full text of the letter is below.
Dear Director Ahuja:
I write with concern regarding the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) recently released Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document titled, “Availability of Sick Leave for Travel to Access Medical Care.” Shortly after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, President Biden made it clear that “if any state or local official, high or low, tries to interfere with a woman’s exercising her basic right to travel [for abortion], I will do everything in my power to fight that deeply un-American attack.”
Following this statement, OPM released clarifying guidance, which provides sick leave to federal employees and their families to travel to “receive medical examination or treatment.” Your newly-released FAQ explicitly notes that “an employee may find it necessary to travel longer distances, including out of state, to obtain medical care,” and “[i]n such instances, sick leave may be used to cover necessary travel time.” It is obvious given the timing of the announcement that the purpose of the OPM guidance is to facilitate federal employees traveling out-of-state to obtain an abortion.
It is noticeable, therefore, given the obvious intent of the guidance, that nowhere in the guidance is the phrase “reproductive services,” “abortion” or any other abortion-related language. One is left to believe these phrases were intentionally omitted in this guidance by lawyers in the executive branch to circumvent Congressionally-mandated Hyde protections, which bars federal funds from being used to pay for most abortions. The Biden Administration’s actions and statements over the last several days are focused on undermining pro-life states and now they are even willing to violate longstanding federal law prohibiting the use of taxpayer monies to fund abortions or abortion services.
The federal government has no business promoting the killing of unborn children. I demand that the agency clarify that the federal government will not provide sick leave for travel related to abortion services. I look forward to your prompt response and action on this important matter.
Sincerely,
Marco Rubio
U.S. Senator
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Impeachment will queston all his actions ,let’s hope fine are in the cards for his anti american,law breaking BS.
Fingers crossed and sending up some prayers, too, Charles!! 🙂
AND?!?!…Who’s going to do anything about it? NOBODY ! Everybody is paid-off.
I suspect it will be hard to impeach uncle Joe out as it was for president Trump. Best not to waste the time effort and money. Biden is getting so feeble and the democrats know it. Slaughter them out in the mid term election vote and get someone else Republican or Independent in for president next time around. Unless uncle Joe resigns, then we have to deal with Kamala who definitely isn’t presidential material.
So why is Biden so dead set on killing babies that he would threaten every absurd notion the democrats can think of to get around the plain fact that it’s the states business, not his. If the next election doesn’t fix this, we the people are going to have to take matters into our own hands. How long is the Congress and SCOTUS going to let this regime break the law and continue their anti-American, Marxist, coup? It is our right to fight tyranny. I guess this moron really hasn’t thought it through very far.
I think I’m losing it. I would lie to see more than just an impeachment. He and his entire syndicate need to serve real jail time.
They all belong under the jail.
NO on any Fed lands
Dear Mr. Biden,
I do not understand your obsession with killing unborn children so much that you fell that you can disregard the law. Further I do not understand why you hate America so much that you would use unlawful executive orders to destroy our way of life just to push this “Green New Deal” which is totally without merit and is a hoax that was perpetrated by the United Nations to justify their existence. You were even heard on a hot mic after a speech stating that “this Climate Change is bull sh*t”. If you truly think that we can do without oil just think about this. Nothing in this nation or the world can make, harvest, manufacture or sell anything without transportation which requires oil. No medicine can be made without using solvents made from oil. Nothing made of any type of plastic can not be made with oil which is part of the ingredients used to make oil. No leather can be tanned without oil so there goes your shoes and leather seats and furniture. They keep saying that you mental facilities are waning so maybe this is why you are killing the oil industry. You cannot even heat your many homes without oil.
Tell me when a communist pos demon rat ever cared about federal law.
This man needs taken out of office. I don’t think these ideas are all his, he’s incapable of making any decisions, but as long as George the Anti-Christ Soros is writing checks Bidumb is there in line to get his.
Everything about Biden violates Natural as well as Federal law! FJB!
We the Great Unites States of America have the dumbest ass, repulsive, disgraceful, disrespectful, hateful, unknowing, uncaring, pice of crap of a so called president.
Biden breaks lots of federal laws, when will impeachmeny hearings start? You can’t use Facebook or Messenger because your account, or activity on it, didn’t follow our Community Standards. We have already reviewed this decision No free speech on facebook, CANCELED BY FACEBOOK AGAIN, FOT TELLING THE TRUTH. “still protecting the biden’s”