After House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that the "Republican-led House will not be jammed or forced into passing a foreign aid bill that was opposed by most Senate Republicans," House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) said there was a "serious national security threat."
The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps announced that he is commissioning a "root-and-branch" review of the military's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has been accused of violating scientific integrity policies after offering limited evidence for why "gender-affirming care" is "necessary."
The American College of Pediatricians cautioned against "gender-affirming care" for transgender adolescents as current literature on the subject does not offer "long-term evidence" that medical intervention "benefit their mental well-being."