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Mark Pocan: “Pete Hegseth actually telling those who've been serving now…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 17:55

And I want to touch on the last thing is something with your community, which is the LGBTQ community and the Supreme Court now allowing to not just ban transgender people to serve in the military, like the first Trump regime, but Pete Hegseth actually telling those who've been serving now for years, because Biden allowed it, you got to leave. These are people who have more courage and patriotism than Donald Trump will ever have in his life, and now they're going to be forced out of the military, and all they want to do is serve our nation. (17:55–18:02)

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Asserts that Pete Hegseth is telling transgender military personnel to leave despite Biden's previous allowance.

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