President Barack Obama would veto a temporary spending bill designed to keep the government open that will defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.

“If the president were presented with H.J.Res. 61, as amended by this amendment, he would veto the bill,” the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement Thursday.

The Republican-controlled Senate attached a House-passed bill to defund Planned Parenthood as an amendment to a continuing resolution that will fund the government into December. The amendment would redirect money from Planned Parenthood to community health centers.

If such a continuing resolution did make it to Obama’s desk and he vetoed it, the federal government would temporarily shutdown if a new agreement is not reached before midnight Sept. 30, meaning that “non-essential” employees would not work until a spending agreement is reached.

“The president does not want to see any ideological riders like the one that is in this Senate bill, and that is why we said we would veto this one,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Thursday.

The OMB statement says that “the administration strongly opposes Senate passage” of the legislation.

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