President Obama’s Defense Department team shouldn’t treat the military as “an experimental laboratory on social issues” in the final months of his administration, according to a top Republican lawmaker.

“We’re seeing a lot of stuff coming out of DoD in the waning months, and so that will present oversight challenges to us to understand the implications of what they put out and especially the long-term implications,” House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, told reporters on Monday morning.

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