Mike Johnson Agrees to Fund Service That Gives Teens Transgender Clothing

House speaker is being rebuked by some Republicans for earmarks related to transgender and abortion care as part of spending bill.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is being rebuked by Republican colleagues for myriad earmarks related to transgender and abortion care as part of Congress' $1.2 trillion spending bill.A midnight deadline on Friday looms to avoid a partial government shutdown. Lawmakers are being asked to vote on a six-bill package of more than 1,000 pages that provides money to areas including defense, homeland security, labor, health and human services, financial services and the legislative branch.

Other earmarks of note, as highlighted by the House Freedom Caucus in a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, include: $1,808,000 for 'facilities and equipment' for the Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island. $650,000 for Dartmouth Hitchcock Nashua in New Hampshire, which according to its website 'routinely provides' medication and procedural abortion care up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.

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