this is american voices. as the battle of control of congress heats up before the 2024 election, republicans are showing us how they plan to governor govern if they win. case in point, they re attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over government spending this fall. the new york times writes quote, mccarthy s to the right is a gambl
these audiences. again, mostly a younger college crowd here tonight. donald trump speaking to them and directly on this set of issues. to pick up on what you say, it those core issues actually taking center stage and the house this week. when it comes to this new defense spending bill, what are you watching for as a head over to the senate? the senate has been working on its own version of this bill for months. in many ways, it is similar to what the house started with without the kind of far more conservative cultural amendments. the bill will probably be on the floor as early as next week. i think we ll see some amendments come up that maximalist what we saw in the house. that was defeated by a democratic majority almost without exception. everything is possible without animate if one is attached to this bill on that abortion travel restriction might actually be the off ramp that tommy tuberville needs to drop his whole.
this is american voices. as the battle of control of congress heats up before the 2024 election, republicans are showing us how they plan to governor govern if they win. case in point, they re attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over
quite takes us to talk about the middle of a defense spending. what shall we make of this defense bill out of the house? what does that tell us, what does it tell you about gop priorities? it tells me, on, that there is a party that claims that they care about things such as our national defense and claims that they care about our national security overall, and claims that they care about our service members. but when it comes down to it, over 1500 amendments that were submitted, they did not want to submit amendments that had anything to do with actually veteran the lives of our service members. in fact, many of us would argue that the amendments they submitted, the ones that made this bill not be the bipartisan bill that it was as it came out of committee, those animals were submitted just to hurt our service members. when we listen to members call other service members or members of congress colored people, something tells me that