共和党领导的众议院周四投票通过了唐纳德·特朗普总统的美国海湾行政命令，将墨西哥湾更名。
该法案以211票对206票获得通过，众议员唐·培根是唯一投票反对该措施的共和党人。
这项立法是由乔治亚州共和党众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林提出的，它将总统的行政命令编成法典唐纳德·特朗普给水体重新命名。
它在参议院的命运更具挑战性，因为它需要两党合作来克服阻挠。领袖约翰·图恩还没有表明他是否会将该法案提交议会投票表决。
“美国法律、地图、法规、文件、文件或其他记录中对墨西哥湾的任何引用都应被视为对‘美国湾’的引用，”法案文本称。
该措施还指示每个联邦机构根据名称的变化更新每个文件和地图，内政部长道格·伯根将负责监督。
特朗普开始第二任期时的首批行政命令之一就是给墨西哥湾重新命名。
“对美国湾进行合法的重新命名不仅是我和特朗普总统的优先事项，也是美国人民的优先事项。美国纳税人为其保护提供资金，我们的军队保卫其水域，美国企业为其经济提供燃料。
除了委员会主席主持会议辩论之外，格林是唯一发言支持该立法的共和党人，他的两侧是一张将墨西哥湾标为美国湾的地图。
与此同时，包括领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯(Hakeem Jeffries)在内的几名民主党人“强烈”敦促立法者在议会辩论中投票反对“这项心胸狭窄、愚蠢和阿谀奉承的法案”。
“共和党人决定用整个立法日来辩论一项重新命名墨西哥湾的法案。现在，在某些方面，美国人民可以心存感激，”杰弗里斯补充说。
议长迈克·约翰逊支持该法案。
“我们一直在夜以继日地工作，以编纂特朗普总统一直在做的这么多事情……以确保我们将这些纳入成文法，以便它不会被即将上任的政府逆转和抹去，”约翰逊在周二的新闻发布会上说。
House passes bill to make 'Gulf of America' name change permanent
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, which was introduced by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, codifies an executive order from PresidentDonald Trumpto rename the body of water.
Its fate in the Senate is more of a challenge, given that it will need bipartisan cooperation to overcome a filibuster. Leader John Thune has not indicated whether he'll put the measure on the floor for a vote.
"Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper or other record of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico shall be deemed to be a reference to the 'Gulf of America,'" the bill text states.
The measure also instructs each federal agency to update each document and map in accordance with the name change, which Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will oversee.
One of Trump's first executive orders when he started his second term was to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
"Codifying the rightful renaming of the Gulf of America isn't just a priority for me and President Trump, it's a priority for the American people. American taxpayers fund its protection, our military defends its waters, and American businesses fuel its economy," Greene argued in a post on X.
Beyond the committee chairs managing the floor debate, Greene -- flanked by a map labeling the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America -- was the only Republican to speak in support of the legislation.
Meanwhile, several Democrats including Leader Hakeem Jeffries "strongly" urged lawmakers to vote against "this small-minded, silly and sycophantic bill" during floor debate.
"Republicans have decided to spend this entire legislative day doing is to debate a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Now, in some ways the American people can be thankful," Jeffries added.
Speaker Mike Johnson endorsed the bill.
"We've been working around the clock to codify so much of what President Trump has been doing … to make sure that we put these into statutory law so that it can't be reversed and erased by an upcoming administration," Johnson said at a news conference on Tuesday.
