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Headline Roundup July 28th, 2017

House Funds Border Wall

Summary from the AllSides News Team

The House has passed a budget resolution appropriating $1.6 billion for a border wall. Reports are circulating that Trump's recent ban on transgender service members in the US military came as a compromise in order to woo House Republicans who do not support allotting defense funds for gender reassignment surgeries.

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Trump banned transgender people in military to save border wall funding: Report
Trump banned transgender people in military to save border wall funding: Report

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President Trump may have taken sudden action to ban transgender people from serving in the military as an attempt to ensure House funding for the border wall, according to a report published Wednesday afternoon.

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Trump throws transgender patriots under the bus to save funding for his precious border wall
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Why would Trump randomly begin his morning by launching a sudden attack on transgender Americans whom he pledged repeatedly to fight for on the campaign trail? Perhaps because he thought they were standing between him and the thing he wants more than anything in the world: funding for his precious border wall.

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Trump may have announced the transgender military ban to save a bill funding the border wall
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President Donald Trump's sudden announcement Wednesday morning that transgender people would be barred from serving in the US military may have been part of a last-ditch effort to save a House bill that partly funds a border wall, according to a Politico report.

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