The first is spending, McKinley said.

“The president has said, if we don’t increase spending, he’s going to veto anything,” McKinley said.

The second issue centers around the debate over defunding Planned Parenthood, an agency under scrutiny since a series of videos surfaced that appear to show a high-ranking Planned Parenthood official talking about the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses.

“We in the committee have seen all of (the videos), and I find them just abhorrent. The idea that we’re harvesting baby parts,” McKinley said. “It may be legal, and that’s where we’re not sure, but it just screams to me as immoral.”

Still, McKinley said he would not vote to shut down the government over the issue of funding the controversial agency, unlike some other Republicans in Congress.

“There are some people that too often in Washington confuse principle with tactic,” McKinley said.

“They’re going to be difficult, because they’ve decided to plant the flag — that this is a fight that needs to be fought,” the congressman said.

But the amount of funding at stake may not justify the means, according to McKinley. About half of Planned Parenthood’s funding comes from the federal government, with 85 percent of that federal funding coming through Medicaid, he said.

The Medicaid funding can’t be touched as part of budget proceedings, according to McKinley.

“Under the funding bill, you can’t change an existing statute. In trying to cut the money out, you can’t cut off that 85 percent. It can’t be touched,” McKinley said. “If the shutdown occurs, it’s going to be over 15 percent of the 50 percent.”

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