North American President Joe Biden criticized the ban under pressure from the Republican opposition in Congress to raise the rainbow flag of the LGBT community in US embassies.
The measure was approved on Saturday with the president’s promulgation of the US budget law, the text of which was approved by Congress hours earlier and which confirms funding for the federal government of $1.2 billion (about 1 billion euros) until September 30. thereby avoiding the closure of public administration.
During lengthy negotiations between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, right-wing conservatives included in the 1,100-page budget text a ban on US embassies around the world flying the LGBT flag.
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