US Congress passed $886 billion defense policy bill void of most GOP culture-war demands

🔶️ Passage of the compromise legislation was a rebuke of hard-line House conservatives who had targeted #Pentagon policies on abortion, diversity and LGBTQ+ rights

🔶️ The compromise bill approved Thursday is void of nearly all of the hard right’s culture-war provisions — including a measure that would have barred the Defense Department from reimbursing the travel costs of U.S. service members who travel out of state to obtain an abortion. And several members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus took to the House floor Thursday morning to assail the bill as a betrayal of conservative values.

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