OnPolitics Today: Trump's Mar-a-Lago trips cost more than trans soldiers' health care

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OnPolitics Today: Trump's Mar-a-Lago trips cost more than trans soldiers' health care
Josh Hafner, USA TODAY Published 8:37 p.m. ET July 26, 2017 | Updated 10:27 a.m. ET July 27, 2017

President Trump tweeted this morning that the U.S. military wouldn't allow transgender troops "in any capacity," an apparent rejection of the military's roughly 6,000 trans troops and the Obama-era policy that embraced them.

The U.S. "cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail," Trump said.

Except trans troops don't really cost that much, as many soon pointed out.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/07/27/transgender-soldiers-cost-u-s-less-than-trumps-mar-a-lago-trips/515058001/