{"id":2269024,"date":"2024-06-16T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-bill-would-rename-coastal-waters-after-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T20:27:18","slug":"gop-bill-would-rename-coastal-waters-after-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-bill-would-rename-coastal-waters-after-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Legislation Proposes Renaming Coastal Waters in Honor of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-bill-would-rename-coastal-waters-after-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2269024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A U.S. House Republican, Rep. Greg Steube, has proposed\u200b legislation to\u2064 rename the United States&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-led-nord-stream-2-pipeline-resumes-construction-in-europe-after-halting-under-trump-report\/\" title=\"Russian-Led Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Resumes Construction In Europe After Halting Under Trump: Report\">exclusive economic zone<\/a>\u200c (EEZ) after former \u200dPresident Donald \u200cTrump, who is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-jersey-gov-phil-murphy-quashes-2024-presidential-bid-reports-throws-support-behind-biden\/\" title=\"New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Quashes 2024 Presidential Bid Reports, Throws Support Behind Biden\">current presidential candidate<\/a>. The bill would change references to the EEZ in official documents to the\u2064 &#8220;Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.&#8221; Steube \u2063praised\u200d Trump&#8217;s \u200defforts regarding\u2063 ocean \u200bconservation during his presidency \u2062and stated that \u200brenaming the coastal waters would commemorate Trump&#8217;s contributions to \u200cthe nation. However, the likelihood of the bill passing is\u200c low \u2062due to the \u2063Democratic control of the Senate and the White House. Despite the partisan divide, this measure\u2062 reflects ongoing efforts by House Republicans to honor Trump, \u2064aligning with similar proposals by other GOP members.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Coastal waters around the United States would be named after former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, who is currently running for another term in the White House, if a long-shot bill proposed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-house-of-representatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House<\/a> Republican gets enacted into law.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) <a href=\"https:\/\/steube.house.gov\/press-releases\/u-s-rep-greg-steube-to-introduce-legislation-naming-u-s-coastal-waters-in-honor-of-president-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> last week that he would be introducing a bill to re-designate the <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanexplorer.noaa.gov\/facts\/useez.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclusive economic zone (EEZ)<\/a> of the United States. References to the EEZ in law, maps, regulation, documents, papers, or other records of the U.S. would be named the \u201cDonald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States\u201d under the plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFloridians know the great value of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greek-oil-tanker-owner-ordered-by-us-court-to-pay-2-25-million-for-ocean-pollution\/\" title=\"US court orders Greek oil tanker owner to pay .25M for polluting oceans.\">coastal natural resources<\/a> and how important it is to have a president who cares about the strength and resilience of our oceans,\u201d Steube said. \u201cDuring his time in office, President Trump took several commendable actions for our oceans as part of his work to make America strong, secure, and economically prosperous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steube added in the press release, \u201cI\u2019m honored to introduce legislation that will rename our coastal waters after President Trump and serve as a reminder of his many contributions to our nation for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislation faces long odds as the Senate and the White House are controlled by Democrats. Still, the party divide in the halls of Washington has not stopped Republicans in the GOP-led House from offering measures to promote Trump. That includes recently-proposed legislation from Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to have Trump\u2019s portrait <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-legislation-would-put-trumps-face-on-500-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appear on $500 bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-republicans-propose-renaming-dulles-airport-after-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put forward legislation<\/a> this year that would rename Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia \u2014 one of the major airports in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan are \u2014 as the \u201cDonald J. Trump International Airport\u201d in all laws, maps, regulations, documents, papers, or other records of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-dems-introduce-bill-to-rename-federal-prison-after-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offered<\/a> a bill seeking to change the name of the Miami Federal Correctional Institution \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-troll-gop-with-bill-to-rename-miami-prison-after-trump\/\" title=\"House Democrats tease Republicans by proposing a bill to rename Miami prison after Trump\">closest federal prison<\/a> to Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida \u2014 to the \u201cDonald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution\u201d in a nod to the criminal matters the former president is facing, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/verdict-trump-found-guilty-on-all-charges-in-hush-money-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guilty verdict<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oceanexplorer.noaa.gov\/facts\/useez.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the<\/a> National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States claimed a 200-nautical-mile EEZ in 1983 that \u201cextends beyond and adjacent to the seaward boundary of the 12-nautical-mile (14-mile) territorial sea of the United States\u201d that \u201cincludes Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and other U.S. possessions.\u201d It adds: \u201cWith more 3.4 million square nautical miles (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guarding-the-coast-and-beyond\/\" title=\"Coastal and beyond protection.\">4 million square miles<\/a>) of ocean, the U.S. EEZ is larger than the land area of all 50 states combined and is one of the largest EEZs in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House Republican has proposed a bill to rename U.S. coastal waters after Donald Trump, who is campaigning for another presidential term. Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) announced the initiative last week, aiming to re-designate these areas in honor of the former president. The bill faces uncertain prospects in becoming law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2269025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2157143505-scaled-e1718562743713.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2157143505-scaled-e1718562743713.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}