Marjorie Taylor Greene is livid that anti-trans provisions were removed from military bill

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is saying that the joint conference to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – the $886 billion bill to fund the U.S. military for a year – is removing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion provisions House Republicans put in, and she’s angry.

“The whole NDAA deal was made between Speaker [Mike] Johnson, [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer, and the [House Armed Services] Committee, and people like me, we didn’t get to participate,” she said in a video posted to social media. “We were appointed to participate to make sure: no money for abortion, no money for trans.”

Related:

Admiral goes viral explaining how the GOP’s attacks on the troops hurt military readiness

His blistering response comes as House Republicans are holding up military funding to take health care access away from servicemembers.

“The policy is in place that funding is there for abortion travel, the policy is still in place for trans in the military and everything that goes with it,” she continued. “Democrat trans policy, Democrat abortion policy, 300 million for Ukraine is back in the NDAA.”

Insights for the LGBTQ+ community

Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more.

Daily

Weekly

Good News

She then said that she is going to vote against it.

The NDAA is one of several large spending bills that Congress was supposed to pass this year to keep the federal government funded. House Republicans used their slim majority to fill the NDAA and the other bills with anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion, and other far-right provisions.

Since the Senate has a Democratic majority and the president is a Democrat as well, these provisions have put funding for large swaths of the federal government in jeopardy.

Republicans added several anti-LGBTQ+ measures to the NDAA, including measures to remove any gender-affirming care coverage for trans troops and ban any book that has “pornographic materials.” The former would block TRICARE – the health care plan for servicemembers, their families, and the National Guard – from reimbursing gender-affirming care, even for adults. The ban includes hormone replacement therapy, which could force trans people who depend on TRICARE to detransition.

Republicans also added a provision banning the military from helping servicemembers stationed in states that ban abortion from travel to a state where they can access an abortion.

When posting her video to X, Greene said that it was “outrageous” that the measure got removed from the bill even though it may have doomed the bill in the Senate.

“Now, we’re supposed to just grin and take it with no say in the final bill,” she said. “This was a total sell-out of conservative principles and a huge win for Democrats. Congratulations to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, you should all be excited to vote for this! I’m a HELL NO!”