Trump's gender-affirming care ban is why we need Congress to grow a spine - LGBTQ Nation
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If Congress would do something to defend the power Trump is usurping, it would stop these harmful new rules.

Yesterday’s announcement from Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows just why the 2026 midterms will matter so much, and why the 11 months of waiting to get there could be so disastrous. We need a Congress that will stand up and snatch back the purse strings as the Founding Fathers originally intended.

In the United States Constitution, Congress is granted the power of the purse: the right to decide how much to spend and on what. Also, importantly, it gets to decide when to remove funding. In the 70s, that was used to pull funding from the Vietnam War. That power does not belong with the Executive Branch, which the Constitution says must “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

  • 🇵🇸antifa_ceo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Congress will never “grow a spine” they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do via the design of our government. The US was explicitly founded on defending the interests of private property (which is to say capital) against the common masses. Our government is inherently undemocratic and you will never see permanent gains in rights while it exists this way. Everything will inevitably backslide towards capital interests no matter how much we try.

    In the past we were better about couching class disparity in culture war shit but that tactic has worn thin. As we have ripped off every remaining performative guardrail on uplifting the average person (performative because the goal is not to give you a good life but one just good enough you’ll keep your mouth shut and your head down over) this has only become more apparent to everyone.

    There is no prosperity for all no matter how much we try to work for better within this system. LGBTQ rights (and everyone else’s rights for that matter) are inextricably tied to this oppressive system we live under while we capitulate to the interests of capital. We will only be free once we can dismantle these systems in favor of something truly democratic and truly for the common man, woman, and enby.

    Until we are all free none of us are free. LGBTQ rights are no different. If we fight for one we fight for all.