President Joe Biden signed a bloated omnibus funding bill on Saturday, which includes a provision that will ban the LGBTQ+ Pride flags and other flags used as symbols for political or cultural movements, such as Black Lives Matter.
“None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be obligated or expended to fly or display a flag over a facility of the United States Department of State” other than the U.S. flag, the POW/MIA flag, the hostage and wrongful detainee flag, the flag of a state, the flag of an Indian tribal government, the official branded flag of a U.S. agency, or the sovereign flag of other countries.”
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Florida) remarked that the flag policy exposes a larger issue—the DEI and critical race theory agenda advocated by the Democrats—and has affected military academies and recruitment efforts.
“I don’t think that we should be flying flags that sow division by thinking that it somehow creates some kind of inclusion,” quipped Mills.
“I think it does the opposite.”
“I just personally think that it’s sad that we have to state these things,” he added.
The prohibition of unapproved flags would last until the end of the funding deal, September 30.
Two-thirds of House members approved the massive $1.2 trillion bill on Friday, which will operationalize 70 percent of the government. Most Republicans refused to back the misappropriated budget bill.
However, aside from the ban on non-US flags, House GOP members were unable to push more than 45 provisions, which will limit budget allocations on gender reassignment procedures, drag shows, and DEI policies advocated by President Joe Biden.
Still, the Democrats lambasted the approval of budget cuts on LGBT community projects and the prohibition of pride flags on US embassies.
“Unfortunately, Republicans fought to maintain a rider that restricts Pride flag displays at State Department buildings, and the final funding bills did not include some LGBTQI+ community funding projects,” decried Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin)
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas]) hit the bloated funding and said these are the same policies that the GOP is opposing.
“This is business as usual in the swamp,“ said Rep. Roy.
Furthermore, the Texas Representative, who was also a member of the House Freedom Caucus, warned fellow lawmakers that if they campaign to oppose “open borders,” the public will mock them.
Roy also lamented that they only had barely 24 hours to review the legislation.
Republicans in Congress criticized the lack of stringent border measures and the failure to fund the recently approved Laken Riley Law.
To avert the ‘threat’ of a government shutdown, the Senate railroaded the voting and approval of the deal.
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