The House of Representatives voted to make President Donald Trump’s name change for the Gulf of America permanent on Friday morning.
The legislation was led by staunch Trump ally, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
“This is such an important thing to do for the American people. The American people deserve pride in their country, and they deserve pride in the waters that we own, that we protect with our military and our Coast Guard and all of the businesses that prosper along these waters,” Greene said during debate on the bill.
Democratic lawmakers, meanwhile, panned the legislation as a waste of time.
“Republicans think this juvenile legislation is the best use of this House’s time. This is the only work we’re doing today, folks,” Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said in his rebuttal to Greene.
Earlier this week, Fox News Digital was told that several GOP lawmakers privately expressed frustration at what they saw as a largely symbolic bill taking up their time instead of more meaningful legislation to move Trump’s agenda along.
“I’ve heard criticisms from all corners of the conference. Conservatives to pragmatic ones,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “It seems sophomoric. The United States is bigger and better than this.”
One conservative GOP lawmaker vented to Fox News Digital, “125 other [executive orders], this is the one we pick.”
Greene hit back at the detractors, however, in response to Fox News Digital’s report.
“Some of my Republican colleagues don’t want to vote for my Gulf of America Act, which is one of President Trump’s favorite executive orders. They say they would rather vote on ‘more serious EOs.’ Boys are you ready to vote to criminalize sex changes on kids?? Because I have that bill on that EO too,” she wrote on X.
