Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) are demanding that President Donald Trump’s administration stop allowing the nation’s largest employer-sponsored health benefits program to use tax dollars to cover the costs of abortions for Members of Congress and congressional staffers.
“Since 1984, the Smith Amendment to the Financial Services Appropriations bill has prohibited the use of appropriated funds ‘to pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions,’ except in cases ‘where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest,” Lee, Smith, and 22 other GOP Senate and House colleagues said in a December 5, 2025, letter to U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor.
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