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President Trump Announces Ban On Transgender People In The Military

Published July 26, 2017 at 12:33 PM EDT
President Trump holds a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Rose Garden at the White House on July 25, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President Trump holds a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Rose Garden at the White House on July 25, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

President Trump tweeted Wednesday that the U.S. government will ban transgender people from serving in the military. He cited “tremendous medical costs and disruption” as the reasoning.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson gets the latest from NPR’s Tom Bowman ( @TBowmanNPR).

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