The $1.2 trillion budget adopted in extremis March 23 helps avoid the “shutdown” in the United States. But that doesn’t mean it’s unanimous. Certain measures obtained in the project by the Republicans are causing a lot of talk: no military aid planned at the moment for Ukraine or Israel, more funding for UNRWA, but also the ban on LGBT+ flags in American embassies.
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With our correspondent in New York, Loubna Anaki
For the Republicans, this is a small victory in a standoff that has lasted since the presidency of Donald Trump. At the time, the billionaire’s administration imposed a ban on flags LGBT+ on official buildings. A measure then canceled by Joe Biden.
If the new text adopted this weekend does not explicitly ban rainbow flags, it provides that the budget can only be used for the American flag, as well as a very limited list of other flags to be made float above official buildings.
Saturday March 23, Joe Biden criticized this measure. One of the White House spokesmen said it was “ inappropriate to take advantage of the need to fund the government to include this ban which targets LGBT+ Americans “. He affirmed that they had still managed to block many other measures of this kind slipped into the project by the Republican Party, and assured that Joe Biden remains determined to defend LGBT+ equality.
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