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JUST IN--Some good news:
House Passes FY25 Defense Appropriations Act, Bolstering Military Capabilities and Supporting Our Servicemembers
Includes:
• Cutting $53 million from the President’s Budget Request for diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Prohibiting funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion offices.
• Prohibiting the implementation, administration, or enforcement of the Biden Administration’s executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
• Defunding the position of Deputy Inspector General for Diversity and Inclusion and Extremism in the Military and the position of Chief Diversity Officer.
• Prohibiting the promotion or advancement of critical race theory (CRT).
• Prohibiting events on military installations or as part of recruiting programs that bring discredit upon the military, such as a drag queen story hour for children or the use of drag queens as military recruiters.
• Prohibiting the use of funds to perform medical procedures that attempt to change an individual’s biological gender.
• Prohibiting funding for the President’s controversial climate change executive orders and regulations.
• Cutting $621.2 million from the President’s Budget Request for climate change initiatives.
• Prohibiting paid leave and travel or related expenses of a servicemember or their dependents to obtain an abortion or abortion-related services.
• Prohibiting censoring constitutionally protected speech of Americans.
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