Throughout an interview with the Fox Information Channel’s “Particular Report” on Wednesday, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a query on if she nonetheless helps taxpayer {dollars} paying for gender transition surgical procedures for federal prisoners or detained migrants by stating that she’ll “observe the regulation” simply as her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump did throughout her administration to offer such surgical procedures, when medically wanted to these within the federal jail system and Trump is “making an attempt to create a way of worry within the voters…on a problem that, because it pertains to the most important points that have an effect on the American individuals, it’s actually fairly distant.”
Host Bret Baier requested, “So, are you continue to in assist of utilizing taxpayer {dollars} to assist jail inmates or detained unlawful aliens to transition to a different gender?”
Harris answered, “I’ll observe the regulation. And it’s a regulation that Donald Trump really adopted. You’re in all probability accustomed to, now, it’s a public report, that, underneath Donald Trump’s administration, these surgical procedures had been out there to — on a medical necessity foundation — to individuals within the federal jail system. And I believe, frankly, that advert from the Trump marketing campaign is just a little little bit of like throwing stones once you’re residing in a glass home.”
Baier then mentioned, “The Trump aides say that he by no means advocated for that jail coverage and no gender transition surgical procedures occurred throughout his presidency.”
Harris lower in to say that Trump has to take accountability for what occurred when he was in workplace.
Baier then mentioned that no surgical procedures occurred throughout the Trump administration and requested, “So, would you continue to advocate for utilizing taxpayer {dollars} for gender reassignment surgical procedures?”
Harris responded, “I’ll observe the regulation. Simply as I believe Donald Trump would say he did.”
She added, “I believe it’s — he spent $20 million on these advertisements making an attempt to create a way of worry within the voters, as a result of he really has no plan on this election that’s about specializing in the wants of the American individuals. Whereas — $20 million on that advert, on a problem that, because it pertains to the most important points that have an effect on the American individuals, it’s actually fairly distant. And, once more, his coverage was no totally different.”
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