President Joe Biden signs into law first federal anti-LGBTQ+ bill in decades
President Joe Biden signs into law first federal anti-LGBTQ+ bill in decades
The National Defense Authorization Act has a provision barring the military's insurance from covering gender-affirming care for service members' children.
It's not ''Biden signs anti LGBTQ+ bill' as the spin would have it. The Republican speaker of the house put in a provision saying Tricare can't cover gender care for the children of service members.
They could either sign this, or have the government shut down and then when Trump takes over in less than a month they put in something far worse.
Chances are something far worse will come to pass at the end of 2025 with the Republicans having controll of all 3 chambers in the next term, but that'll just be ignored because it's not a chance to shit on the Democrats.
Thats not even the whole of it. The only services blocked for coverage are ones not even done for minors as far as I'm aware.
That bill wasn't to fund the government, it was to approve military spending
If it failed to pass it would have delayed new payments to military services, not shut anything down, and it would have lasted at the most 20 days when the new administration is sworn in.
This really seems like a 'take what you can get, because next year you're getting nothing' situation. I can't imagine that these two provisions would have survived next year. And the trans provision would definitely still be included in 2025.
"The deal also includes major overhauls to the military justice system aimed at stemming sexual assault in the ranks. The bill would create special prosecutors outside the military chain of command to handle sex crimes, as well as kidnapping, murder and manslaughter."
"The bill includes a provision backed by House Democrats that blocks states from using private funding for National Guard deployments to other states, aside from natural disaster response. "
Here's a fun thing. My father works a government job, so if the government shuts down, he works for no pay.
:D
(When the GOP stops throwing a temper tantrum, he gets paid)
Yeah man.
They totally didn't renege, again, on their publicly stated principles.
They're just oh-so-powerless and had no choice, not even when they had control of Congress for two years and chose not to do anything then either. It's the Democrats we should definitely be feeling bad for here, because they're just so weak and easy to take advantage of by those cunning, swindling Republicans.
this is always the problem, politics is a nuanced game. Even if you want to solve the problem you have to convince everyone there is a problem and then get everyone on board with how you're going to solve it.
it's not something you can just snap your fingers and do. it's made doubly hard when you have an entire wing of the government and corporatocracy fighting a culture war in order to divide the people so they can't overthrow them.
so does this fly in the face of their publicly stated principles? yes, but it's the best option they have. this is what happens when you let apathy win you get only bad options.
What’s next? Signing on a genocide?
Good thing we voted for Trump then.
In this case, it feels like the usual routine. Democrats have power for years and do nothing to codify something into law that they promised to, like with Roe.
Then, Republicans do something to block, ban, or repeal it. Then Democrats, who have power, do nothing to fix it.
It's called the Ratchet Effect, and it really doesn't matter who we elect. Republicans roll back rights. Democrats make sure we can't get them back. It's a feature of having a government controlled by the rich.