Sen. Marco Rubio seeks to limit the Biden administration from symbolically promoting leftist antics overseas.
The Florida Republican filed a bill this week that would make the American flag a prominent symbol at U.S. diplomatic missions in foreign countries.
According to the text of Rubio’s bill, “Any flag, seal, or emblem that is not the United States flag and is flown, draped, projected, or displayed otherwise as a visual and symbolic representation at a United States diplomatic mission, official residence, or official office, or on an official United States vehicle shall be smaller than the official United States flag, and, if flown, may not be displayed higher than or above the United States flag.”
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“This bill seeks to reinforce the importance of our flag, which is more than just a national emblem,” Rubio said in a statement on Thursday. “Our flag is a testament to the God-given freedoms endowed to every American citizen and we cannot let woke ideology take that sense of national pride from us.”
“Whether it’s at a U.S. diplomatic mission, our Ambassador’s residence, or an official U.S. vehicle, no flag should be flown higher than the Star-Spangled Banner,” Rubio added.
Rubio filed the bill as Congress debated the $1.2 trillion spending bill to keep the government open.
Forbes reported on Thursday that the bill included a provision that temporarily bans all flags except for the American flag and other official flags to fly at U.S. embassies or other State Department facilities.
The rule reverses a policy Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued in April 2021 to allow embassies to fly Pride flags alongside the U.S. flag.
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That policy, however, did not appear to get much traction in fundamentalist Muslim countries.
Forbes noted the ban applies for the duration of the funding bill, which expires on Sept. 30, the end of the federal fiscal year.
Under the spending bill proposal, acceptable flags now include the POW/MIA flag, those belonging to Indian tribal governments, flags of other nations, flags of “a State, insular area, or the District of Columbia at domestic locations,” flags of official U.S. agencies, the Foreign Service flag and the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag.
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While GOP lawmakers could claim victory in a temporary rollback of leftist LGBTQ politics, woke activists were not all that upset because the bill’s flag language was both limited and temporary.
The Hill reported that Brandon Wolf, press secretary for the left-wing Human Rights Campaign, referred to the bill’s language as a “mean-spirited but limited provision” that “poses absolutely no limits” to displaying Pride flags anywhere in embassies except outside the building.
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