House Republicans are stuffing a veterans appropriations bill full of anti-LGBTQ+ measures

Soldiers of the California National Guard, alongside their fellow service members and veterans from all branches, participated in the 2019 San Diego Gay Pride Parade, July 13, 2019
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Out Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) is sounding the alarm on how Republicans added a plethora of anti-LGBTQ+ measures during a markup of the Fiscal Year 2024 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill on Tuesday.

He said that his GOP colleagues adopted an amendment “to deny access to medically-necessary care to transgender veterans, prohibit pride flags from being flown at VA facilities, and even allow discrimination against LGBTQ+ people” as the bill was being discussed in the House Appropriations Committee this week.

“Most of the other provisions in this amendment have very little to do with a MilCon bill,” he said during the committee meeting, and are instead “about abortion and gender-affirming care, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and apparently the fear of some cloth, banning pride flags at our veterans’ facilities across the country.”

The Appropriations Committee’s website lists an adopted amendment to the bill from Rep. John Carter (R-TX) that “prohibits Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training and implementation, prohibits funding for…

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