President Donald Trump issued an executive order reversing the Biden-era directive that allowed transgender people to serve in the military.
The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in the military from transitioning.
"It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child," he said.
President Donald Trump rescinded an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden aimed at finding new models for lowering drug costs. Trump's action didn't affect the caps on seniors' drug costs or Medicare price negotiations that Biden signed into law.
In July 2017, Trump enacted the first ban on trans service members in the military, announced through a series of tweets. That decision sent shockwaves around the Department of Defense, and senior Pentagon leaders were “caught flat-footed” by the announcement, according to emails uncovered at the time by the watchdog group American Oversight.
"It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child," he said.
Since taking office for his second term on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders (EOs) aimed at
The executive order follows a separate Pentagon directive calling for a change for transgender troops issued Monday.
The ?chemical and surgical mutilations? of children should be stopped, the executive order reads US President Donald Trump has signed a ne
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The administrative stay pauses the freeze until Monday.
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Mr Trump said the US ‘will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another’.