HRC Article:
WASHINGTON — Last night, President Biden signed the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law, which includes a provision inserted by Speaker Mike Johnson blocking healthcare for the transgender children of military servicemembers. This provision, the first anti-LGBTQ+ federal law enacted since the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, will rip medically necessary care from the transgender children of thousands of military families – families who make incredible sacrifices in defense of the country each and every day. The last anti-LGBTQ+ federal law that explicitly targeted military servicemembers was Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which went into effect in 1994.
Biden’s press release:
No service member should have to decide between their family’s health care access and their call to serve our Nation.
Oh ok, they got some of the terrible stuff out, I guess good job, call it a day! /s
WTF is wrong with you people. He doesn’t need to be a king to not just roll over and accept their poison pills. “They’re crazy, they’ll do anything” is clearly wrong, as they back down from government shutdowns all the time. It’s just a convenient excuse for people like you that, despite failure after failure after failure, think the Democrats are always on the top of their game and just lost because there were no other options.
And if Republicans refuse to write a “clean” bill… OK. If Congress can’t get it together to pass something that is acceptable that just funds the military (a thing the Republicans desperately care about), then it’s the same blame game that occurs every time a shutdown is imminent. A game the Republicans usually lose.
He passed the bill not because he had too, but because he didn’t care enough not to. It’s the same lack of courage and triangulating that plays out time and again with centrists and civil rights for minorities. In 20 years we’ll all look back at the 2020s centrist triangulation and see it as shameful while the centrists will have moved on to throwing a new vulnerable group under the bus for just not being practical to defend while they don’t even try to.