Trump Lays Groundwork for Transgender Military Ban During First Day in Office President Trump has rescinded the previous administration's order allowing transgender troops to serve openly and issued his...
Biden Administration Closing Without Fulfilling Promise to Provide Gender-Affirmation Surgery to Transgender Vets In June 2021, Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough delivered a high-profile speech in which he announced his department...
Woman Drops Transgender Health Care Case Against US Military The U.S. House of Representatives is no longer asking to intervene in a Maine woman's lawsuit against the military's health...
14.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise, Restriction on Care for Transgender Military Kids Headed to Biden's Desk The 4.5% raise will be added to all service members' paychecks at the beginning of January, while the remaining 10% extra for...
Transgender Troops, Confronting Shifting Policies of Acceptance, Just Want to Serve Transgender troops' right to serve -- perhaps even to fight and die for a nation they volunteered to defend -- has been...
Health Care for Transgender Military Kids Could Be Banned by Must-Pass Defense Bill Transgender children of service members could lose access to gender-affirming health care through the military health system...
Trump Reportedly Weighs Immediate Discharge of All Transgender Troops. Here's What That Would Mean. The proposed plan, as first reported by the Times of London, would entail signing an order within days of Trump taking office...
Republicans Spent Years Slamming 'Woke' Military Policies. The Election Could Give Them the Chance to Act. As the presidential and congressional campaigns enter their final stretch before Nov. 5, GOP vows to undo wokeness are...
Restrictions on Transgender Health Care Slipped into Senate's Must-Pass Defense Bill The military would not be able to pay for surgeries for transgender troops under the Senate's version of the must-pass annual...
After Failing to Overturn VA Abortion, LGBTQ+ Policies, House Republicans Try Again with Must-Pass Bill Kicking off the fiscal 2025 appropriations process with controversial policy riders sets the stage for a replay of the...
Trump's Promises to Radically Change the Military In this episode, we spoke to two experts with collective decades of experience in analyzing the promises President-elect...
Trailblazing Coast Guard Commandant Fired by Trump Administration Adm. Linda Fagan, the first woman to serve in the Coast Guard's top job, was relieved following the swearing-in ceremony for...
Culture War Fights Poised to Take Lead in Trump's Pentagon Agenda Hegseth's testimony did not delve deeply into how the administration will confront some of the thorniest national security...
The Battle over Veterans’ Health Care: How the Republican Majority Hopes to Reshape the VA With the new Congress sworn in and President-elect Trump poised for his second inauguration, Republicans have queued up a...
Trump Vowed to End the War in Ukraine Quickly but Moscow and Kyiv Are Digging in Before Any Talks Both sides have taken tough negotiating postures that leave little room for compromise.
![President Donald Trump, right, appears on "Fox & Friends" with co-host Pete Hegseth](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-01/AP%20Trump%20Hegseth%201800x1200.jpg?itok=RYJjYQxd "FILE - President Donald Trump, right, appears on "Fox & Friends" with co-host Pete Hegseth in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)")
