American Principles Project urges votes in favor of the following amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024:

• Number 30: Prohibits provision of gender transition procedures, including surgery or medication, through the Exceptional Family Member Program.

• Number 194: Prohibits TRICARE from covering and the Department of Defense from furnishing sex reassignment surgeries and gender hormone treatments for transgender individuals.

• Number 310: Amends Section 904 to prohibit federal funds from being used to establish a position within the Department of Defense for anything similar to Chief Diversity Officers or Senior Advisors for Diversity and Inclusion.

• Number 314: Prohibits federal funds for training on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Number 363: Prohibits funds authorized for DoDEA from being used to promote that idea that, 1) Any race is inherently superior or inferior to any other race, color, or national origin. 2) The US is a fundamentally racist country. 3) The Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution are racist documents, 4) An individual’s moral character or worth is determined by the individual’s race, color, or national origin. 5) An individual, by virtue of the individual’s race, is inherently racist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously. 6) An individual, because of the individual’s race, bears responsibility for the actions committed by other members of the individual’s race, color, or national origin.

• Number 377: Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from paying for or reimbursing expenses relating to abortion services. This is an amendment version of H.R. 1297.

• Number 394: Prohibits any adverse actions against cadets or midshipmen based on their COVID-19 vaccination status. Further, states that an individual may not be denied admission at a service academy based on their COVID-19 vaccination status.

• Number 1000: Prohibits the Department of Defense from making participation in training or support for certain race-based concepts a requirement for hiring, promotion, or retention of individuals. It also ensures that employees and service members cannot be compelled to declare belief in or participate in training that promotes such concepts as a condition of favorable personnel actions.

• Number 1138: Requires that all documents and correspondence of the Countering Extremism Working Group are provided to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government and the Committee on Armed Services

• Number 1345: Prohibits DoD from establishing new DEI administrator positions and/or taking actions to fill vacancies in currently existing DEI billets.

• Number 1386: Prohibits Department of Defense Education Activity schools from purchasing and having pornographic and radical gender ideology books in their libraries.

• Number 1421: Prohibits any funds authorized in the bill from being used by the military service academies to discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity in academy admissions or to establish quotas for admission on the basis of race or ethnicity.

• Number 1464: Codifies Trump admin guidance to prohibit the display of unapproved flags.

• Number 1465: Eliminates any offices of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion along with the personnel in said offices within the offices of the Armed Forces and Department of Defense.