Democrats panned the bill as “ridiculous” and an attempt by Republicans to “suck up” to Trump.
A group of House Republicans has introduced legislation to rename Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia after former President Donald Trump.
The bill, filed Friday, is sponsored by Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., the chief deputy majority whip, and is co-sponsored by six other Republicans: Reps. Michael Waltz, of Florida; Andrew Ogles, of Tennessee; Chuck Fleischmann, of Tennessee; Paul Gosar, of Arizona; Barry Moore, of Alabama; and Troy Nehls, of Texas.
The measure says it would “designate the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia as the ‘Donald J. Trump International Airport.’”
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“This idea is ridiculous, but sadly real,” Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who’s running for governor of Virginia, wrote Tuesday in a post on X, adding that Congress instead should focus on reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration and passing foreign aid. “Yet this is what a Member of House Republican leadership focuses on — renaming Virginia’s Dulles airport after Trump.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., the chief deputy majority whip, and is co-sponsored by six other Republicans: Reps. Michael Waltz, of Florida; Andrew Ogles, of Tennessee; Chuck Fleischmann, of Tennessee; Paul Gosar, of Arizona; Barry Moore, of Alabama; and Troy Nehls, of Texas.
Some House Democrats expressed disbelief over the move to rename the airport, 26 miles west of downtown Washington, D.C.
“This idea is ridiculous, but sadly real,” Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who’s running for governor of Virginia, wrote Tuesday in a post on X, adding that Congress instead should focus on reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration and passing foreign aid.
“Yet this is what a Member of House Republican leadership focuses on — renaming Virginia’s Dulles airport after Trump.”
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., wrote in a thread on X Tuesday that one of Trump’s first acts as president was “a racist Muslim ban that blocked permanent American residents from their own country.”
Former Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va., who assisted the House select committee that investigated Jan. 6 in the last Congress, said on X Tuesday that the filing of the bill was no April Fools’ joke.
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This is going to age like milk if he’s ever convicted.
Besides the “don’t they have anything better to do” line, I really feel like you need to already be dead before they can do this sort of thing.