RIGHT SPEAK: 76 House Republicans Help Democrats Kill Measure Defunding Clinics That Perform Abortions, Child ‘Trans’ Surgeries: Norman’s Amendment Sought to Ax Senate-Inserted Earmarks Allocating Millions to Entities That Conduct Abortions and Harmful ‘trans’ Procedures On Minors

76 House Republicans Help Democrats Kill Measure Defunding Clinics That Perform Abortions, Child ‘Trans’ Surgeries:

Norman’s amendment sought to ax Senate-inserted earmarks allocating millions to entities that conduct abortions and harmful ‘trans’ procedures on minors.

A day before the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., 76 House Republicans joined their Democrat colleagues in defeating a measure aimed at preventing taxpayer dollars from bankrolling facilities that perform abortions and “trans” surgeries on children.
The moment came late Thursday afternoon when the GOP-controlled House of Representatives killed an amendment put forward by Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., to a FY2026 government spending bill. The amendment sought to ax Senate-inserted earmarks that allocate millions in taxpayer money to entities that conduct harmful “trans” procedures on minors and abortions.

The final House vote was 136-291, with nine members not voting. Here’s the roll call showing how every member voted.

Here are the 76 Republicans who voted to keep earmarks and DEI provisions from Dems in the omnibus bill. pic.twitter.com/zkWDKezwBZ
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) January 23, 2026

According to an analysis conducted by Heritage Action, the aforementioned spending bill includes a $2 million earmark requested by Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., for “pediatric mental health services” for the San Diego-based Rady’s Children’s Hospital. The hospital boasted as recently as last year about its so-called “gender affirming care” center and discloses on its website that it has performed such harmful procedures (including “hormone/puberty blocker therapy”) on at least 136 children.

The analysis further highlighted earmark requests from Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Tina Smith, D-Minn., and Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., to bankroll various other health clinics and hospitals in their respective states with histories of supporting and/or conducting harmful trans-related operations on children. This list also includes a $1,599,000 earmark request from Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, for “labor and delivery equipment at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center” — which “operates a ‘pediatric gender clinic’ that provides sex-rejecting hormones for ‘gender diverse and transgender children,'” according to Heritage Action.
“Because of the fungible nature of money, government funding for one program frees up resources to fund other activities,” the Heritage report reads. --->READ MORE HERE