House-Passed Defense Bill Unwinds Pentagon’s ‘Woke’ Agenda: Freedom Caucus

The House has adopted its version of the proposed $886.3 billion fiscal year 2024 defense budget and dispatched it to the Senate, where many of the “culture war” amendments conservatives successfully attached to the must-pass annual appropriations package are likely to be rejected by the Democrat-led chamber.
Do so at your own risk, House Freedom Caucus members and associated Republicans warned after the chamber’s defense budget was adopted in a 219–210 mostly partisan vote on July 14.
Over the span of two days, the Republican-led House repealed the Department of Defense’s (DOD) abortion travel policy, prohibited DOD health care programs from providing gender-transition procedures, adopted a DOD “Parents Bill of Rights,” and introduced a host of other proposed add-ons targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to a must-pass defense budget normally approved in bipartisan accord….}