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U.S. Rep. Don Bacon was the only Republican to oppose a bill to codify Trump’s order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
North Carolina’s representatives in the U.S. House split on whether to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Now the bill must go before the Senate.
The House has passed a Republican-led bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, moving a step closer to codifying President Donald Trump’s push to rename the body of water.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would back President Trump and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. What we know
President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico followed through on its threat to sue Google for using Trump's "Gulf of Mexico" alternative on its digital maps.
The Republican-led House voted Thursday to codify President Donald Trump's Gulf of America executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico. It passed with a 211 to 206 vote with Rep. Don Bacon as the only Republican to vote against the measure.
The legislation was all but certain to die in the Senate, but the move put the Republican-led House on the record supporting President Trump’s nomenclature.
The Republican-led House has passed a bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and direct federal agencies to update their documents and maps to incorporate the new name.