A divided house on Thursday has approved legislation to permanently rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, who are moving about the harassing objections of Democrats to codify President Trump’s executive order that renes the water body with a Maga Flair.
The 211-to-206 mainly party-line vote to adopt the bill, amounted to a symbolic show of Republican respect for Mr Trump, since it is unlikely that Democrats allows the legislation in the Senate. But it placed the house guided by Gop on the record that the president supported in his attempt to rewrite the rules of Geography and dare to defy him.
The White House has banned journalists from the Associated Press From treating events in the Oval Office and Flying on board Air Force One, as a punishment for the constant use by the news organization of the name Golf van Mexico.
“The American people proudly deserve in their country, and proud of the waters we own and we protect with our army and our coast guard,” said representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican of Georgia who sponsored the bill and called it “one of the most important things we can do this congress.”
Democrats rejected the legislation as a spilling and performative waste of time when Republicans had difficulty reaching agreement on legislation to fulfill the President’s domestic policy agenda – the “large, beautiful account” that can include unpopular cutbacks on Medicaid.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, called it a “stupid, small-minded and sycophantic piece of legislation.” He said that the only silver lining of the exercise was that it underlined how Republicans worked to implement that domestic policy measure, which he warned would impose the greatest Medicaid reduction in history.
“It is easy to mock this legislation because it is so awkward and embarrassing,” said representative Mary Gay Scanlon, Democrat of Pennsylvania, during the debate on the measure this week. “This can be the stupidest bill that has been brought to the ground during the six years that I have served in this congress.”
Mrs. Scanlon and other Democrats noticed that recent polls, including one conducted by FOX News, almost demonstrated that 70 percent of voters opposed Mr Trump’s executive action To rename the Golf, making it one of the least popular actions of his busy first 100 days.
Mrs. Greene defended her legislation as a patriotic and noted that her political opponents were happy to rename orientation points when it suited their preferences, a reference to the renamed symbols after the death of George Floyd in 2020. And she accused Democrats of Surpt against the Name change against the Name change against the Name Change for the Gulf. “
Representative Bruce Westerman, Republican of Arkansas, said that the legislation simply “symbolizes the dedication of Republicans to put America first.”
The bill of Mrs. Greene states that every reference “in a law, map, regulation, document, paper or other report from the United States to the Gulf of Mexico is considered a reference to the ‘Gulf of America’.” And it instructs the domestic secretary to supervise the renamination of federal documents and maps.
Some Democrats used part of their debate to underline the economic issues that do not tackle home republicans while they adopt legislation to codify a name change that they said that voters did not ask.
“We can concentrate on 40 million Americans saddled with medical debts, or we can rename the Gulf of Mexico,” said representative Julie Johnson, Texas Democrat, this week on the floor of the house. “We can tackle the lack of affordable homes of our nation, or we can rename the Gulf of Mexico.”
Others could not control their astonishment about how they were forced to use their time.
“Why not rename the entire planet ‘Planet Trump’?” Representative Jared Huffman, Democrat van California, noted that Mr. Trump’s sons sold ‘Gulf of America’ online for $ 50 each and mentioned the renamation exercise of a family treatment.
Representative Steny H. Hoyer, the patrician Democrat from Maryland, compared the floor of the house with a comedy show late at night. “Live from Washington, DC, Saturday Night Live!” he said. “You can’t make up for this.”
Mr Hoyer noted that votes on the Gulf of America Act was the only legislation that considered the house all day and for the rest of the week.
Mr. Trump said during his inaugural speech that one of his first actions in the White House would be to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The new name, he said after following that promise, had a ‘beautiful ring’.
The president too A proclamation signed Declaration of an official wave of America Day, which he signed in February on board Air Force One while he flew over the water of water on his way to the Super Bowl.
Some companies have set the change. Organizations that are not, including the AP, are punished by the White House. Google has renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America In his card application For users in the United States.
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