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ChampionedAbortion & Reproductive Rights

Vice President Biden supports repealing the Hyde Amendment because health care is a right that should not be dependent on one's zip code or income.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 80%

Independently verified. The underlying promise is genuine: Biden publicly reversed his position in June 2019 (CNBC/ABC), stating a right to health care should not depend on someone's zip code. As president, Biden used the primary executive lever available on an appropriations rider Congress ultimately controls: he became the first president in decades to submit a federal budget omitting the Hyde Amendment, and did so repeatedly across the FY2022, FY2023 and FY2024 requests, making its removal official administration policy. That is active leadership/driving of the repeal effort, beyond a single act, which maps to CHAMPIONED rather than ATTEMPTED. It is not FULL: Congress retained Hyde in every enacted appropriations law and the repeal never passed the Senate, so PolitiFact's promise tracker ultimately rates the promise itself 'Broken.' The StumpWatch scale rates the politician's effort, and repeated agenda-setting executive action even without enactment is exactly what CHAMPIONED (+0.75) describes. Mirror-test check: a president of either party who was the first in decades to strip a longstanding rider from three consecutive budgets after promising to end it would earn the same label. All three sources in the prior rating were re-checked and are real, live, and correctly quoted; the PolitiFact tracker is added as the authoritative on-point source documenting both the effort and its non-enactment. Confidence trimmed slightly from 0.82 to reflect the genuine ATTEMPTED/CHAMPIONED boundary given the largely symbolic nature of a presidential budget request and that Biden signed spending bills retaining Hyde each year.

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