Democrats Find Themselves Boxed in on Transgender Provision in Annual Defense Bill

The bill aims to ‘restore our focus on military lethality and end the radical woke ideology being imposed on our military,’ Speaker Johnson says.

AP/Alex Brandon
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-ballistic missile defense system displayed on the South Lawn of the White House, July 15, 2019. AP/Alex Brandon


Congressional Democrats have found themselves in a pickle after Republicans inserted language into an $895 billion defense bill that aims to ban transgender procedures for minors under the government’s military health insurance program. 

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