House approves $895B defense bill with military pay raise, ban on transgender care for minors

[QChawks]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a $895 billion measure that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending this fiscal year and would give a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military.

The bill is traditionally strongly bipartisan, but some Democratic lawmakers opposed the inclusion of a ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization.

The bill passed the House by a vote of 281-140 and will next move to the Senate, where lawmakers had sought a bigger boost in defense spending than the current measure allows.

Lawmakers are touting the bill’s 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and a 4.5% increase for others as key to improving the quality of life for those serving in the U.S. military. Those serving as junior enlisted personnel are in pay grades that generally track with their first enlistment term.

 

[lucas80]

The cruelty is the point. Typical GOP move in an environment where recruiting and retaining is more difficult, single out the children of service members.

 

[BelemNole]

Ah, addressing the important issues - like how military families can care for the dozen or so kids who are trans.
Cultural wars are always fun.

 

[TennNole17]

Ah, addressing the important issues - like how military families can care for the dozen or so kids who are trans.
Cultural wars are always fun.

from the article: Smith said the number of minors in service member families receiving transgender medical care extends into the thousands.

 

[Hawk_82]

The cruelty is the point. Typical GOP move in an environment where recruiting and retaining is more difficult, single out the children of service members.

So you think we should support sterilizing kids? That's a sadistic take

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

from the article: Smith said the number of minors in service member families receiving transgender medical care extends into the thousands.

I saw that in the article as well, but I question it.

If it's accurate, they need to do a serious study on why there are sooooooooooo many trans kids of military members.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Seems like a reasonable demarcation line.

ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization.

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

The headline here is we are once again increasing spending in a category where we are already the far and away global leader in spending money on the military.

The deficit IS the biggest issue we have and this is the largest discretionary bucket of spending we have.

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a $895 billion measure that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending this fiscal year and would give a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military.

The bill is traditionally strongly bipartisan, but some Democratic lawmakers opposed the inclusion of a ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization.

The bill passed the House by a vote of 281-140 and will next move to the Senate, where lawmakers had sought a bigger boost in defense spending than the current measure allows.

Lawmakers are touting the bill’s 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and a 4.5% increase for others as key to improving the quality of life for those serving in the U.S. military. Those serving as junior enlisted personnel are in pay grades that generally track with their first enlistment term.

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Why do dems hate having a secure country and compensating those responsible??

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

Ah, addressing the important issues - like how military families can care for the dozen or so kids who are trans.
Cultural wars are always fun.

Military parents won't tolerate those slippery dick games from their kids!

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

from the article: Smith said the number of minors in service member families receiving transgender medical care extends into the thousands.

Now it's ZERO!

 

[OrlandNole]

Seems like a reasonable demarcation line.

ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization.

So is this like a ban on chemtrails?

 

[B1GDeal]

Pay increases are needed especially at the lower to mid-levels. But there is so much waste when it comes to R&D, facilities, equipment, planes, copters, ships, jets, etc… if they’d really reign in those things they’d save a shit Ron of money. Also, the contractors bleed the military for money every year.

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

Pay increases are needed especially at the lower to mid-levels. But there is so much waste when it comes to R&D, facilities, equipment, planes, copters, ships, jets, etc… if they’d really reign in those things they’d save a shit Ron of money. Also, the contractors bleed the military for money every year.

You'd think the new Department of Government Efficiency would take this on immediately, but they're too busy trying to shut down the department of education, NPR and the EPA.

 

[alaskanseminole]

So is this like a ban on chemtrails?

Gonna end an entire career field!

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

So is this like a ban on chemtrails?

More like a ban on sodomy.

 

[tumorboy]

36 Trillion dollars.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

So is this like a ban on chemtrails?

I read it as a move against micro plastics.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

So is this like a ban on chemtrails?

Exactly the same 😀

 

[alaskanseminole]

Exactly the same 😀

chemtrails causes transgenderism, right? Well, that and cilantro.

 

[TennNole17]

chemtrails causes transgenderism, right? Well, that and cilantro

 

[MichaelKeller99]

We’ll see the first trillion dollar ‘defense’ bill in just a couple years. Insanity.

Bring our troops home, adopt a neutral, Swiss-style approach to foreign policy and we could defend this country for <$50 billion.

 

[gohawks50]

from the article: Smith said the number of minors in service member families receiving transgender medical care extends into the thousands.

How many of them have been permanently sterilized? I bet 0.

 

[hawkedoff]

The left really is willing to burn everything so they can **** up kids with trans ideology. It is an sureal thing to watch.

 

[TennNole17]

How many of them have been permanently sterilized? I bet 0.

I have no idea, was just correcting Belem

 

[TennNole17]

Seems like a reasonable demarcation line.

ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization.

Agreed. I don't know why some of these issues are "all or nothing" approaches

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

The left really is willing to burn everything so they can **** up kids with trans ideology. It is an sureal thing to watch.

Are you a trans expert?

 

[franklinman]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a $895 billion measure that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending this fiscal year and would give a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military.

The bill is traditionally strongly bipartisan, but some Democratic lawmakers opposed the inclusion of a ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization.

The bill passed the House by a vote of 281-140 and will next move to the Senate, where lawmakers had sought a bigger boost in defense spending than the current measure allows.

Lawmakers are touting the bill’s 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and a 4.5% increase for others as key to improving the quality of life for those serving in the U.S. military. Those serving as junior enlisted personnel are in pay grades that generally track with their first enlistment term.

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Has congress paid the CC defense bill from last year yet or still putting it off.

 

[jneffer]

36 Trillion dollars.

we're about 6 weeks past giving a shit about this

 

[NoleinATL]

The Department of Defense budget would be a good starting point for the new government agency tasked with curbing government waste and inefficiency.

 

[4ohs]

The left really is willing to burn everything so they can **** up kids with trans ideology. It is an sureal thing to watch.

There is quite a bit of difference between me telling my son “I love you, no matter what” and “I love you, but only if you **** girls”

I don’t really consider that kind of accepting ideology as “burning it all down”

 

[gohawks50]

The Department of Defense budget would be a good starting point for the new government agency tasked with curbing government waste and inefficiency.

True, but I doubt this proposed ban will save any money. This trans add on is about making it look like Democrats are in favor of sterilizing minors. The fact is that minors are not having permanent gender affirming surgery that will sterilize them. Puberty blockers don't permanently impact fertility.

Republicans are great at making issues out of things that aren't happening and getting voters/supporters to believe the issue out of control.

 

[hawkedoff]

Are you a trans expert?

**** off

 

[hawkedoff]

There is quite a bit of difference between me telling my son “I love you, no matter what” and “I love you, but only if you **** girls”

I don’t really consider that kind of accepting ideology as “burning it all down”

If you go along with your son being trans as a child you are not a good parent and your child needs to be removed from your home.

 

[4ohs]

If you go along with your son being trans as a child you are not a good parent and your child needs to be removed from your home.

HO-LY crap that point just went right over you.

Yeah my boy is going to live a much saner life than any of your kids.

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

**** off

So easily triggered.

 

[bcherod]

from the article: Smith said the number of minors in service member families receiving transgender medical care extends into the thousands.

I call BS on that.

 

[TennNole17]

I call BS on that.

Seems inflated, but who knows. I'm not in that world, so not sure how that makeup shakes out.

 

[Hawk_82]

I call BS on that.

Why?
There are 2.8 million serving in the military. If 1% were trans, that would be 28,000 people.

Obviously they are talking about kids, so the numbers are different, but it is very possible.

 

[hawkedoff]

HO-LY crap that point just went right over you.

Yeah my boy is going to live a much saner life than any of your kids.

You are a shit parent