(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
The House on Wednesday passed an $895.2 billion defense policy bill after Democrats blasted the inclusion of a provision — pushed at the 11th hour by Speaker Mike Johnson — to prohibit the military’s health-care system from providing specialized treatments to the transgender children of U.S. service members.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed 281 to 140, with fewer than half of the chamber’s Democrats voting in favor of what is typically a bipartisan piece of legislation.