Pardon my ignorance, but if an anti trans provision passed in one of these funding bills, wouldn’t it be temporary since these bills only last about a year anyway before needing to be passed again?
You’re right that it would be temporary, but the problem is, provisions added to the bill in ‘compromise’ usually become part of the status quo. Take the Hyde Amendment for example, which bans federal funding from going towards abortions. It’s been added every year without fail to spending bills since its original inclusion almost 50 years ago. That’s the problem here.
Also has the senate versions of these bills included any of these anti trans provisions yet or are they only in the house versions?
Yes: the Senate versions do not include these provisions, it’s only the House bills.
Pardon my ignorance, but if an anti trans provision passed in one of these funding bills, wouldn’t it be temporary since these bills only last about a year anyway before needing to be passed again?
You’re right that it would be temporary, but the problem is, provisions added to the bill in ‘compromise’ usually become part of the status quo. Take the Hyde Amendment for example, which bans federal funding from going towards abortions. It’s been added every year without fail to spending bills since its original inclusion almost 50 years ago. That’s the problem here.