{"id":496447,"date":"2021-05-11T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496447"},"modified":"2021-05-11T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:36:27","slug":"u-s-lawmakers-pressure-biden-over-canceled-rolling-thunder-veteran-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-lawmakers-pressure-biden-over-canceled-rolling-thunder-veteran-event\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Lawmakers Pressure Biden Over Canceled \u2018Rolling Thunder\u2019 Veteran Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-lawmakers-pressure-biden-over-canceled-rolling-thunder-veteran-event%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496447&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rolling-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>More than 30 Republican lawmakers in Congress are pushing President Joe Biden to overturn a decision by the Pentagon that prevents a\u00a0veterans group from using one of its massive parking lots to stage a Memorial Day motorcycle rally, a mainstay in Washington, D.C., for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have hoped that President Biden would have more respect for a Memorial Day tradition, which raises awareness to the 82,000 service members who are still missing in actions and that 22 veterans die by suicide each day,\u201d Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/memorial-day-biden-pentagon-rolling-to-remember-brian-mast\">told<\/a> Fox News. \u201cThat is why today, I along with 33 of my House colleagues are urging President Biden to reverse his administration\u2019s decision and grant Rolling to Remember their permit request to use the Pentagon\u2019s parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoreover, nine state, local and federal agencies have already approved AMVETS\u2019 permit for this year \u2026 your Administration is the only remaining barrer to ensuring this Memorial Day tradition goes as planned,\u201d Mast and the Republicans wrote in the letter. \u201cTherefore, we urge you to overturn the decision by the Department of Defense and grant a permit to AMVETS for use of the Pentagon parking lot. Thank you for your urgent attention to this matter that is deeply personal to myself and many veterans across this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gathering draws tens of thousands of motorcyclists from across the country each year and stages in a Pentagon parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>A special events section of the Pentagon had approved AMVETS\u2019 permit for Rolling to Remember on March 11 but then revoked it. Last month, Mast \u2014 a 12-year Army veteran who worked as a bomb disposal expert and lost both his legs while deployed in Afghanistan \u2014 wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urging him to \u201cpromptly approve\u201d the permit in April. The Pentagon blamed COVID-19 for the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the facts that BLM [Black Lives Matter] can get a riot permit in Washington, D.C., with COVID going on at the exact same time, how do you not allow veterans into the parking lot, the 70-acre parking lot of the Pentagon in this 20-year plus tradition? Total politics in my opinion,\u201d Mast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/the-faulkner-focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> on Fox News last week.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous letter, Mast said the Pentagon approved the permit \u201conly to revoke that approval a week later, citing a \u2018routing error\u2019 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The event is being put at risk by the refusal of the Pentagon to approve the permit in a timely manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mast said Americans enjoy freedom because of the sacrifice of the U.S. military, \u201cbut the Biden Administration seems intent on restricting that freedom, and now, even restricting Memorial Day ceremonies. Preventing a tradition like Rolling to Remember flies in the face of the freedoms that so many have died to protect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AMVETS\u2019 national executive director Joe Chennelly expressed his disappointment with the decision on \u201cFox &#038; Friends First\u201d earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur biggest disappointment with the Pentagon\u2019s decision here was that they never gave us an opportunity, despite us asking many times, to be able to present a plan of how we would be able to meet at the Pentagon parking lot outdoors in a safe, responsible way,\u201d Chennelly said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat, traditionally, this event has been all about is our missing in action. We have more than 80,000 Americans who are still missing in action since World War II,\u201d Chennelly said. \u201cWe are committed to still having a central staging area. \u2026 We have a Plan B and a Plan C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plan B is to stage near RFK Stadium, several miles away from Constitution Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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