The American House of Representatives adopted a text on Thursday to officially rename the Gulf of Mexico in the United States in the “Gulf of America” and thus giving the decree for the decree signed by Donald Trump when he returned to power.
The bill, carried by the elected Trumpist Marjorie Taylor Greene, aims in particular to complicate any revocation in the future of this new name. A future Democratic president could indeed cancel the executive decree of the Republican with a feather, while a law can only be abolished by going through a new legislative process.
However, the text has little chance of being adopted in the Senate. If the Republicans have 53 seats out of 100, the text would indeed need 60 votes to be adopted.
This bill “is so important for the American people,” said Marjorie Taylor Greene in the hemicycle before the vote.
“Americans deserve pride in their country and in the waters we have, which we protect with our armed forces,” added the faith of the Republican president.
The text was adopted with 211 votes for and 206 against – including an elected republican.
-The chief of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, had called to vote against, calling it “as a piece of ridiculous, mean, and servile legislation”.
As of January 20, the first day of his return to the White House, Donald Trump had signed a decree changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”.
In the process, the major American Tech Google and Apple groups had decided to rename the Gulf on their cartographic tools for American users.
The decree had also led to a real weapon pass between the American news agency Associated Press and the White House, due to the refusal of the first to adopt the new name.
In an editorial note, AD had explained that this decree only authorized in the United States, Mexico as well as other international countries and organizations not “recognized the change of name”.
Pillar of journalism in the United States, in particular was excluded from the oval office and the presidential plane “Air Force One” in February. A federal judge ordered the White House in early April to restore full access to the agency, without the American executive having completely folded there.
