The Republican-led House voted on Friday to strip President Biden’s homeland security secretary and secretary of state of their salaries.
It approved measures banning military installations from having drag queen story hours for children.
The provisions were included in three spending bills to fund the Departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security that House Republicans muscled through largely along party lines — even though none of them have any hope of becoming law.
With a government funding deadline looming at the end of September and a high-stakes election in November, lawmakers have entered a period of legislative theatrics, where each chamber is advancing spending bills that the other will never approve.
In the House, for a second year in a row, that has meant that Republican leaders have opened the floodgates to a barrage of conservative priorities.
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