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September 15, 2025

Democrat Ruben Gallego Files Legislation to Block Military Funeral Honors for Ashli Babbitt

This driver's license photo from the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), provided to AP by the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office, shows Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt was fatally shot by an employee of the Capitol Police inside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, while the rioters were moving toward the House chamber. (Maryland MVA/Courtesy of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

From Breitbart:

In a letter to the Babbitt family posted by Judicial Watch, Lohmeier stated, “After reviewing the circumstances of Ashli’s death, and considering the information that has come forward since then, I am persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect.”

The Pentagon initially denied the Babbitt family’s request for military funeral honors for her. It stated in a letter that the circumstances preceding her death — that she was “fatally shot after having illegally entered” the Capitol — resulted in the determination that conferring the honor would “bring discredit on the Air Force.” The letter was posted by Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative legal group, that lobbied for the Pentagon to provide honors to Babbitt. In its request to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the organization cited President Trump’s clemency for more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants.