House rejects Smithsonian women’s museum bill after GOP bans ‘biological men’ from exhibits
Democrats said the revised bill would let President Donald Trump control the museum’s site and exhibits after Republicans added limits on who could be featured.
- On Thursday, House Democrats and a handful of conservative Republicans defeated legislation 204–216 that would have secured a National Mall site for the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
- Lawmakers withdrew support after Republicans amended the bill to limit the institution to "biological women" and bar depicting "any biological male as female," codifying a 2025 Trump executive order.
- Democratic Women's Caucus Chairwoman Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., criticized provisions allowing the president to select an "alternative site" within 180 days, claiming it grants unchecked authority over museum content.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., remarked the amendment made Democrats "run for the hills," while chief sponsor Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., called the defeat "a disgrace."
- Although Congress originally authorized the museum in 2020, the recent vote leaves the project's development timeline uncertain as partisan disputes over identity and content stall progress on the National Mall site.
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House rejects Smithsonian women's museum bill after GOP bans ‘biological men' from exhibits
What started as a widely backed proposal to locate a new Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall devolved into a partisan fight Thursday after Republicans revised the legislation to ensure no transgender people are included in the exhibits. The House rejected the bill, 204-216, an outcome that leaves the next steps uncertain. The revised bill also would ban a “diversity” of views and give President Donald Trump the final…
Women's museum bill collapses after Dems revolt over ‘biological women’ language
Bipartisan lawmakers voted against legislation that would have advanced the construction of a new women’s history museum in Washington, D.C., amid disagreements over “identity politics,” with House Democrats criticizing the proposed exclusion of transgender individuals from the museum.
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Source link Guests watch a Fourth of July fireworks display over the National Mall, Thursday, July 4, 2024, from the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Oliver Contreras) Democrats in the U.S. House have killed a proposal for a Women’s Museum on the National Mall because it would be about
Democrats Sink Women's History Museum Bill Because It Wouldn't Include Transgenders
A once-bipartisan proposal to establish the location of a women’s history museum failed when lawmakers could not define a woman. According to ABC News, House Democrats rejected the bill on […] The post Democrats Sink Women's History Museum Bill Because It Wouldn't Include Transgenders appeared first on The Western Journal.
Republicans tried to make a proposed women’s museum transphobic. Democrats put a stop to it.
The Democratic Women’s Caucus on Thursday helped end a transphobic bill seeking to fund the building of the Smithsonian Institution’s new Women’s History Museum, after Republicans added language in a bill funding it to ban inclusion of “any biological male as a female.” Lawmakers voted 216-204 to reject the bill. Six Republicans joined all Democrats in opposition, Politico reports. Related Smithsonian women’s history museum may be derailed by …
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