United States: Republicans ban LGBT flag from embassies, Biden criticizes. The law stipulates that only the American Stars and Stripes and official flags can benefit from funding to fly on the masts of chancelleries.
“We managed to defeat more than 50 other measures attacking the LGBTQI+ community that Congressional Republicans were trying to include in the law,” a White House spokesperson said. Under the presidency of Donald Trump, the head of diplomacy Mike Pompeo ordered that only. the American flag be hung on the pediments of embassies.