Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked an effort by Democrats to oppose the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's order to strip Harvey Milk’s name from a Navy oil ship.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Thursday attempted to pass a resolution via unanimous consent that objected to the Pentagon’s directive to rename the ship, but was blocked by Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.).

Milk, a gay rights activist, was a Navy lieutenant who served during the Korean War and in 1977 became the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. He was assassinated a year later.

“The Navy has seen fit to honor these civil rights icons – who spent their lives fighting for the rights of the American people – by naming ships in their honor. We learned this week, however, that the secretary of Defense does not

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