Forgive me for shocking you, but Mitch McConnell’s Planned Parenthood defunding was a fraud from the beginning. No government spending, no government program–let alone one so close to the demonic heart–is ever to be cut. So while the Cruz-Lee amendment could have passed with 51 votes, it was blocked by Mitch  for one that needed 60 votes, which he knew were not there. Oh, and NB: the McConnell bill did not cut funding, just shifted it to “women’s health.”