A policy rider that House Republicans reportedly added to the final $1 trillion spending package to avert a government shutdown would restrict the type of flags flown over State Department facilities — an issue that’s riled lawmakers who are members of the LGBT community.
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., scolded GOP lawmakers for “forcing their own discriminatory views on the men and women serving our country abroad,” adding the move is “downright un-American,” and that “House Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.”
Under the final appropriations legislation, the appropriated funds cannot be “obligated or expended” to fly a flag over such buildings that are not the U.S. flag, the Foreign Service flag, the POW/MIA flag, the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag, a flag representing a state or District of Columbia at domestic locations, an Indian Tribal flag, an agency flag, or a sovereign flag of other countries, the outlet noted.
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