Would halt use of taxpayers’ assets to promote extremist ideologies
By Bob Unruh
Congress has begun working on a plan that would ban flying flags other than Old Glory on public buildings.
A proposal has been made by Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn., called the One Flag For All Act, after the now-gone administration of Joe Biden prominently featured the leftist ideology-advancing LGBT emblem on the White House in a place where the Stars and Stripes normally reigns.
A report in the Washington Examiner said the congressional action comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s “One Flag Policy” that instructs the State Department to ban flags representing Black Lives Matter, LGBT pride, or any other emblems of leftist ideologies from flying over U.S. government buildings anywhere in the world.
That is an executive order that could be reversed by a future leftist occupant of the Oval Office. The congressional action would embed the standard into the federal law, which is more difficult to change.
The report explained, “Harshbarger’s bill, also supported by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in the Senate, has a higher probability of becoming law now that Trump is in the White House. The bill was not taken up for a vote during the 118th Congress, but the policy was tucked into appropriations legislation in March 2024 for State Department facilities.”
The report Harshbarger’s legislation is broader, and covers all federal buildings, banning most flags with exceptions for the National League of Families POW/MIA flag, member of Congress’s state flags, flags representing a branch of the armed forces, and flags representing a visiting diplomat’s or representative’s nation.