Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a bill on Jan. 9 to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America after President-elect Donald Trump suggested the name change earlier in the week.
The bill, called the Gulf of America Act, states, “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.'”
If enacted, the Department of Interior would oversee the implementation of the new policy. No later than 180 days after the bill became law, documents and maps in federal agencies would be updated with the new name....
