"These provisions, known as "riders" because they're unrelated to the primary purpose of the bill in question, were attached to almost every appropriations bill in the House of Representatives, though not in the Senate, Erin Reed reports at her Erin in the Morning Substack column. The "most extreme" ones were in the bills to fund the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services, Reed notes."
"U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware, a Democrat and the first out trans person in Congress, "was proud to work relentlessly with her colleagues in ensuring these funding bills did not include anti-LGBTQ provisions," a McBride staff member told Erin in the Morning. McBride thanked Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Democratic leaders "for prioritizing the removal of these harmful riders," the staffer said."
Congressional negotiators reached a Consolidated Appropriations Act to fund the federal government through September 30 and removed anti‑transgender policy riders during negotiations. Those riders had been attached to many House appropriations bills and included language barring any federal funds for gender‑affirming care at any age and threatening funding for schools that support transgender students. The removal occurred as House and Senate conferees reconciled differences and released the consolidated package. The act contains appropriations for Education, HHS, Labor, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Defense, and Transportation. Lawmakers must still vote to pass the consolidated appropriations.
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