This week, the Biden administration announced it opposes House Resolution 8774, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act which was passed by the GOP-led House, complaining it had “devastating consequences” for “access to reproductive healthcare … the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Americans, endangered ‘marriage equality,’” and prevented the Biden administration from “promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, which make the Nation’s military a more ready and lethal force.”
“If the President were presented with H.R. 8774, he would veto it,” the Biden administration’s Office of Management and Budget declared. The White House criticized a Republican effort to cut $621 million for “DOD’s accounts identified as climate change-related.”
The White House also said it “strongly opposes section 8122…
