WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., wants to stop the U.S. military from giving military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, calling her a "traitor" for partaking in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol building.

Speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday, the senator objected to the government's recent decision to offer funeral honors to the Air Force veteran who was fatally shot while attempting to climb through a broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol during the 2021 riot.

Babbitt is not a martyr, Gallego said, and giving her full military honors would be a "spit in the face" to veterans who died defending the country. Gallego introduced a resolution stating Babbitt was not eligible for military funeral honors because of her actions on Jan. 6.

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