By JM Rieger and Niels Lesniewski

Majority Whip John Cornyn on Tuesday pushed back against Senate Democrats who claimed they were unaware of language broadening the scope of the prohibition of federal funding on abortion, saying it was “untrue” Democrats were unaware of the language. “Some of the suggestions being made now that there were provisions in the legislation that people didn’t know about are simply untrue. That presupposes that none of their staff briefed their senators on what was in the legislation, that nobody read a 68-page bill and that senators would vote for a bill, much less co-sponsor it without reading it, and knowing what’s in it,” Cornyn said. “None of that strikes me as plausible.”