hot button social issues, republican congressman nancy mace will join us with her take. but first correspondent matt finn with the latest hi matt. mike: the house voted to amend the annual defense spending bill by overturning policy that reimbursing service members for abortion-related expenses. the house also voted to ban transgender health services in the military. in a bitter debate republicans have been arguing in part that the abortion reis burstment is a piece of the democrats woke military agenda that republicans are trying to end. the speaker of the house kevin mccarthy says democrats are trying to change the course of history. and for decades in america, from the most proceed-life to the most pro choice person in congress they believed in the hide amendment and that is simply what it s saying. do not use taxpayer money on abortion. and the other part would be is, what they re looking at, should we allow wokism in our military. now democrats allege republicans a
we allow wokism in our military. now democrats allege republicans are trying to hijack the bipartisan defense spending bill by attacking reproduct i have freedom. democratic congressman of new york pat ryan says most colleagues will vote no on the defense bill calling the republican abortion amendment a quote, poison pill. the far right, who s hijacked the congress and the speaker, unfortunately, has not been able to exert any leadership on this, and now we re at a point where after 62 years of a bipartisan defense bill, that s now going to get blown up. if republicans do pass the entire defense spending bill with their amendments tsenate is expected to take up its own version of the bill next week. aid for ukraine is also a hot continuing to. some republicans want funding cut. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene prepped a bill that would strip $300 million in aid and that was overwhelmingly