  /07/26/trump-transgender-military-b an-behind-the-scenes-240990 > house republicans were planning to pass a spending bill stacked with his campaign promises, including money to build his border wall with mexico. > but an internal house republican fight over transgender troops was threatening to blow up the bill. and house gop insiders feared they might not have the votes to pass the legislation because defense hawks wanted a ban on pentagon-funded sex reassignment operations  something gop leaders wouldnt give them. > they turned to trump, who didnt hesitate. in the flash of a tweet, he announced that transgender troops would be banned altogether. > trumps sudden decision was, in part, a last-ditch attempt to save a house proposal full of his campaign promises that was on the verge of defeat, numerous congressional and white house sources said.  this started because they couldn't get a ban on pentagon-funded sex reassignment surgeries, so trump decided to ban them all together. imagine if they had just banned the sex reassignment surgeries.
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