The measure is within a package prepared by legislators. They hope that the president of the United States, Joe Biden, will sign the project.
He Congress of USA move towards the prohibition of flying the pride flag in the country’s diplomatic representations. The measure is part of secondary points hidden within a US$1.2 trillion package prepared by US lawmakers.
Now, it is expected that the House of Representativesled by Republicans, like the Senateled by Democrats, approve the plan to keep the government running before the midnight Friday deadline, when three-quarters of it will run out of funds.
USA: what Congress proposes about the pride flag
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Within the bill, there is a measure in which prohibits using funding to “fly or display at a US State Department facility”no flag other than the national flag or another that is related to support for prisoners of war, soldiers missing in action, hostages and unjustly imprisoned Americans.
In this sense, US President Joe Biden is expected to sign the funding bill, although his administration has supported LGBT rights. Even, in the month of June, the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken allowed and encouraged American missions to raise the LGBT flag in June, Pride Month.
The order during the Donald Trump government
Under the management of the former president donald trumpBlinken’s predecessor, Mike Pompeoordered that Only the flag of the United States will fly on the masts of the embassies. In 2016, the Seoul embassy attempted to circumvent this directive by putting up a banner with a rainbow.
However, the embassy removed the banner, just as it did with that of Black Lives Matter placed after the murder of the African American George Floyd by a police officer in the city of Minneapolis.
For its part, during the administration of the former president Barack Obamathe White House was lit up in rainbow colors to celebrate the decision of the Supreme Court after legalizing same-sex marriage in the United States.
Source: Ambito
