Alaska House votes down symbolic antiabortion budget language, passes amendment against trans care

Alaska House votes down symbolic antiabortion budget language, passes amendment against trans care

Rep. Andy Josephson, D-Anchorage and co-chair of the House Finance Committee, in charge of the operating budget, listens to debate Monday, April 14, 2025, on the operating budget. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)For the first time in more than 25 years, the Alaska House of Representatives has voted against budget language that seeks to limit Medicaid coverage for abortions. On Monday, the House failed by a single vote to approve a budget am…

House Republicans unite to cut funding for trans health care - The Alaska Current

The 21 Republicans in the House — 19 in the conservative minority and two in the moderate coalition majority — are rarely united on anything, but during Monday’s amendment process on the state operating budget, they found agreement on one thing: Cutting funding for trans health care from the state budget. Republicans rallied around extreme-right Home Republican Rep. Sarah Vance’s measure to block any funding for gender dysphoria care through the…