The U.S. Air Force will provide military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was fatally shot during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, reversing an earlier decision that had denied her family’s request.

The reversal was announced in a letter dated Aug. 15 from Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier, and made public by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, which has represented Babbitt’s family.

“I understand that the family’s initial request was denied by Air Force leadership in a letter dated February 9, 2021,” Lohmeier wrote. “However, 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.”

Lohmeier also invited Babbitt’s mother and husband to meet with him at the Pentagon so he could personally extend condolences.

Babbitt, 35, served in the Air Force for more than a decade before being shot and killed by law enforcement as she tried to climb through a barricaded door outside the House chamber during the Capitol riot. Her death quickly became a flashpoint in the political fallout from Jan. 6.

In 2021, under President Biden’s administration, the Air Force denied her family’s request for military funeral honors. At the time, Lt. Gen. Brian Kelly wrote that granting the honors “would bring discredit upon the Air Force” because of “the circumstances preceding her death.”

Military funeral honors typically include a two-person honor guard detail, the playing of taps, and the folding and presentation of the U.S. flag to the veteran’s next of kin.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton welcomed the reversal, saying in a statement: “Ashli Babbitt’s family is grateful to President Trump, Secretary [Pete] Hegseth and Under Secretary Lohmeier for reversing the Biden Defense Department’s cruel decision to deny Ashli funeral honors as a distinguished veteran of the Air Force.”

The decision comes months after Babbitt’s family reached a nearly $5 million settlement with the federal government over her death. It also underscores broader efforts by the Trump administration to undo Biden-era policies related to the Capitol attack.

On his first day back in office, President Trump pardoned most Jan. 6 rioters and dismissed dozens of federal prosecutors who had worked on related cases.

The Air Force has not yet publicly commented on the letter or confirmed when Babbitt’s funeral honors will take place.