Republicans Advance Trump Ally's Gulf Of America Bill To Full House Vote Despite Dem Opposition

The House Rules Committee has precocious a measure to permanently rename nan Gulf of America.

Formerly nan Gulf of Mexico, President Donald Trump signed an executive bid that upended that arsenic portion of his America First agenda.

But without legislature action, nan sanction could beryllium reverted by a early management – which spurred Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to present a measure enshrining nan sanction successful national law.

The measurement precocious done nan House Rules Committee successful a party-line ballot connected Monday evening, teeing it up for a chamber-wide ballot sometime this week. The House Rules Committee acts arsenic nan last gatekeeper for astir bills earlier they deed nan House floor.

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Speaker Mike Johnson is teeing up a ballot connected a measure this week to codify President Donald Trump's Gulf of America sanction change (AP/Getty)

Democrats had attempted to derail nan measurement with respective protestation amendments, including 1 that would person constricted lipid and state drilling permissions successful nan area. 

None of those passed on pinch nan last bill, however, arsenic expected. 

Democrats ripped nan authorities arsenic a meaningless effort to people governmental points pinch Trump.

Republicans, however, called it a "historic" move for America First and an  "important awesome of that effort and a measurement successful nan correct direction."

"Throughout our country's history, presidents person changed nan names of America's lands and waters. The alteration we are discussing coming signals to nan world that America is opinionated tall, and that we are proud of our country," Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., said successful support of nan bill.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a apical Trump ally, introduced nan measure to officially rename nan Gulf of Mexico arsenic nan Gulf of America. (REUTERS/Jim Bourg)

"It is astir intolerable to overstate nan Gulf of America's captious domiciled successful achieving not only American power independence, but dominance. President Trump has made it a privilege of his management to reassert America's domiciled arsenic a world leader successful power production, and nan Gulf of America is simply a captious portion of that agenda."

She pointed backmost to Republicans' 2024 electoral sweep, "The American group support these policies, and we must present connected nan promises that we person made."

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., a personnel of nan House Rules Committee, said during her opening connection during nan panel's statement connected nan measure, "Ever since nan opening of Trump's term, House Republicans person been tripping complete themselves to find caller and much embarrassing ways to suck up to nan president and indulge his peculiar obsessions."

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Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon criticized nan measure arsenic a discarded of payer dollars

"This measure to rename nan Gulf of Mexico is simply a stupid, unserious discarded of clip and payer dollars. It's an embarrassment to nan federation that it was ever introduced, fto unsocial that it's being brought to nan level for a vote," Scanlon said.

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Fox News Digital is told a House-wide ballot connected nan measure is expected Thursday morning.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital of nan Democrats lodging protestation amendments to nan bill, "Democrats are truthful overtaken pinch Trump Derangement Syndrome and obsessed pinch obstructing nan President’s schedule that they will ever put America Last. As President Trump said, nan Gulf of America has agelong been an integral plus to our nation. All early generations should beryllium capable to admit this beautiful assemblage of h2o arsenic a motion of American greatness."