California Bans State-Funded Travel To Iowa; Ted Cruz Hilariously Educates Them

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California’s attorney general announced the state added Iowa to a “travel ban” because they refuse to cover gender transitioning in Medicaid.

California’s attorney general announced the state added Iowa to a “travel ban” on account of their refusal to cover gender transitioning procedures within Medicaid.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), seizing the opportunity, hilariously pointed out something important that the self-righteous California government might have missed: their ban would impede the chances of their own senator, Kamala Harris, from traveling to Ohio, the state that is the first nominating contest in the Democratic Party presidential primaries. 

He tweeted, “Wow, California’s ban on travel to Iowa’s really gonna hamstring Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.”

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra made the announcement on Sept. 13 prohibiting taxpayer-funded travel to Iowa for public employees and state university students as of Oct. 4, The Sacramento Bee reported.

“The Iowa Legislature has reversed course on what was settled law under the Iowa Civil Rights Act, repealing protections for those seeking gender-affirming health care,” Becerra, a Democrat, said in a statement.

“California has taken an unambiguous stand against discrimination and government actions that would enable it,” he continued.

DailyCaller reports: A 2016 state law prohibits publicly funded travel to states that do not uphold LGBTQ rights. The ban already encompassed Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi, according to Fox News.

Some California lawmakers and state sports teams have transitioned to private funding to work around the travel ban, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in March that taxpayer dollars could be used to finance gender reassignment procedures. Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law in May overturning permission for tax dollars to be used to finance the surgery, according to The Associated Press.

“This narrow provision simply clarifies that Iowa’s Civil Rights Act does not require taxpayer dollars to pay for sex reassignment and other similar surgeries,” her spokesman, Pat Garrett, said in a statement, Fox News reported.

“This returns us to what had been the state’s position for years,” he continued.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry is a writer at The People's Voice. He covers politics, business and entertainment. Speaking truth to power since he learned to talk, Baxter has travelled in over 80 countries and won arguments in every single one. Live without fear.
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3 Comments

  1. Mr President, as Danemark didn’t want to swap Greenland for Kalifornia so, the only option, give Kalifornia to Mexico ..
    You will never regret that ??

  2. So the transsexed think they should get the surgeries on the taxpayer dollar? I had gastric bypass surgery but the insurance refuses to pay for the removal of the panulas, or the abdominal skin, that hangs now. What a world we live in. All ass backwards.

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