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.
Yeah, I guess I could get behind that. At least make it really uncomfortable for people to block reform, I guess. Still not great when the senate majority is GOP, but who knows what could come of it.
I still think a much more ideal solutions is getting 60 Democrats in the senate.
Yes exactly. If someone wants to block something, don’t make it a little procedural thing that can be forgotten. Make it a big deal. Put it on the news. Let them put their face on it.
That also means that Democrats would much less need 60 votes to push many policies. Most of what they would do can be done with 51, and real filibusters would block the really bad stuff.
I don’t believe either party has all the answers. I am disappointed that the GOP has gone down the rabbit hole of project 2025 and religious nuts, but there are some things they get right. Neither party deserves unchecked power.