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President Mike Johnson meets a certain resistance of the Républicains of the Chamber on a bill to codify President Donald Trumpis the push to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
The representative of Nebraska, Don Bacon, said on Tuesday that he would oppose the vote later this week, which is scheduled for the House on Thursday, complicating questions for the leaders of Johnson and the GOP in their thin majority.
At this stage of the week, two management sources of the GOP told CNN that they still thought that the bill can adopt, although Johnson cannot afford to lose much more votes. We expect little, if not any, the Democrats vote for the bill, according to several democratic members and higher assistants.
“It seems just juvenile,” said Bacon to CNN. “We are the United States of America. We are not Germany from Kaiser Wilhelm or France of Napoleon. I’m just – we are better than that. It just looks like a second thing to do.”
The bill, written by the representative of Georgia Gop, Marjorie Taylor Greene, would force federal agencies to update all the cards and documents with the “Gulf of America” instead of the Gulf of Mexico.
Bacon is not the only republican of the house to launch cold water on the measurement.
The problem occurred at a stormy meeting of the House Republicans on Monday evening, in which Bacon, as well as the Glenn Grothman representatives of the Wisconsin and Jay Obernolte of California, criticized the bill, according to a person in the room.
The whip of the majority of the room, Tom Emmer, then urged the members not to choose this problem as their “hill to die,” said this person.
The White House has entered the question in recent weeks A dispute with the Associated Press This led to participation in the courts. As a global media with customers around the world, the AP said that it would continue to use the name “Gulf of Mexico” in its media coverage and its influential style style while recognizing the new name “Gulf of America”.