West Virginia Rep. Riley Moore is pushing for the House to adopt an amendment that would codify President Donald Trump’s executive order that protects kids from transgender medical procedures, The Daily Wire has learned.
Moore introduced the amendment on Tuesday night to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026, which is set to provide funding for multiple departments, including Health and Human Services and Homeland Security.
The amendment would ensure that none of the funding could be used in opposition to Trump’s executive order that orders no federal funding to go toward entities and institutions that perform transgender medical procedures on kids.
“None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of Executive Order 14187 (90 Fed. Reg. 8771; relating to Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” a copy of the amendment shared with The Daily Wire reads.
The bill under consideration also provides funding to the War Department, the Labor Department, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The House Rules Committee is meeting Wednesday to discuss advancing the legislation.
Trump’s executive order directed all agencies and departments of the federal government to “not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
American Principles Project President Terry Schilling urged House Republicans to support the Moore ammendment.
“Voters sent Republicans to Congress and the White House with a clear mandate to protect children from predatory doctors and their Democratic enablers,” he told The Daily Wire. “The Moore Amendment is a barrier to medical malpractice that has done untold harm to a generation of vulnerable children.”
Last month, HHS rolled out rules to defund hospitals that perform transgender procedures on children and penalize doctors who administer those procedures. The rules bar hospitals that offer transgender procedures to minors from participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs. The rules will prohibit federal funding of Medicaid’s Children’s Health Insurance Program from going toward transgender procedures on those under 19 years of age.
While the House has been able to advance measures similar to Moore’s in the past, it could face hurdles in the Senate.
During the previous debate over the passage of President Donald Trump’s signature “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” the House passed an amendment from Rep. Dan Crenshaw that would have prohibited all federal funding for transgender procedures on both children and adults.
That provision was later cut from the legislation in the Senate after the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that it was not in compliance with the Byrd Rule, a provision governing what can be included in a budget reconciliation bill.
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