The National Defense Authorization Act has a provision barring the military's insurance from covering gender-affirming care for service members' children.
The National Defense Authorization Act passed both the House and Senate in recent weeks after months of negotiating between Democrats and Republicans. One issue in the bill was a measure to ban the military’s insurance Tricare from covering some gender-affirming care treatments. Other issues that were, however, struck from the final bill included restrictions on abortion access and DEI initiatives in the military.
Biden said that he and his administration “strongly opposes” restrictions on gender-affirming care for trans youth in a statement released after he signed the bill.
If I had to guess, this was a tightly negotiated funding package which of course the Republican controlled House shoved down Democrat throats because otherwise it couldn’t move through the Senate.
Biden shouldn’t have signed it but the Democrats shouldn’t have bent over and taken it either.
Your stance requires reading the article and nuanced thought. There are many here incapable of that who are already proclaiming “both sides are the same” in the new “corporate overlords” parlance.
If I had to guess, this was a tightly negotiated funding package which of course the Republican controlled House shoved down Democrat throats because otherwise it couldn’t move through the Senate.
Biden shouldn’t have signed it but the Democrats shouldn’t have bent over and taken it either.
Your stance requires reading the article and nuanced thought. There are many here incapable of that who are already proclaiming “both sides are the same” in the new “corporate overlords” parlance.