House votes to codify Trump's Gulf of America executive order
The legislation would make Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico law and require federal agencies to update government documents accordingly.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House on Thursday passed a bill that seeks to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Though all Democrats and one Republican — Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. — opposed the bill, Republicans narrowly passed the measure, 211-206, sending it to the Senate for a vote.
Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene of Georgia introduced the GOP bill after Trump signed an executive order in January that ordered Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to “take all appropriate actions to rename the Gulf” and update a database of the “official names for geographic features in the 50 states.”
On Thursday, during debate on the House floor ahead of the vote, Greene promoted her bill and accused Democrats of "fighting to keep the Gulf of America named the Gulf of Mexico because the cartels are their business partners."
"They fight for the cartels so much," the Georgia congresswoman added.
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