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Miles Archer

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Wed Sep 10, 2025, 09:09 AM Wednesday

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) to introduce resolution to block "military honors" for dead traitorous insurrectionist Babbitt

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) will introduce a formal resolution to prevent the Department of Defense from offering full military honors to Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer as she attempted to crawl through a smashed window into the House Speaker's Lobby as Donald Trump supporters tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, reported CBS News.

"The idea that they're giving this to a person who actively tried to overthrow the government, who was violent in nature, who knowingly was entering a restrictive zone while we were trying to conduct the safe passage of democracy, and the idea that they're just going to give this without a fight, it's just not going to happen," Gallego said.

Gallego pointed out that the president, Vice President JD Vance, along with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force Secretary Troy Meink have not publicly commented on honoring Babbitt, which indicates to him that "they just kind of have been trying to sneak this in under — in the dark."

"I'm not going to let that happen," Gallego added. "I'm going to put people on the record to make sure that we know who stood with your traitor, Ashli Babbitt."

https://www.rawstory.com/ashli-babbitt-is-a-traitor/

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