The House of Representatives on Thursday morning passed legislation, largely along party lines, to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Every Democrat who voted opposed the measure, which was introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as the Gulf of America Act. This marks the fifth Trump executive order from his second term that the House has moved to formalize into law within just 109 days.

Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska and a moderate representing a competitive House district as he mulls retirement, was the only GOP member to vote against the bill. Speaking to reporters, Bacon criticized the legislation as “sophomoric.”

“The United States is bigger and better than this,” Bacon told Fox News Digital.

Greene’s bill would require federal agencies to permanently rename the body of water on documents and maps to the Gulf of America. She has described this legislation as “an important step in codifying President Donald Trump’s agenda into law.”

Some of my Republican colleagues don’t want to vote for my Gulf of America Act which is one of President Trump’s favorite executive orders.

They say they would rather vote on “more serious EOs.”

Boys are you ready to vote to criminalize sex changes on kids??

Because I have… pic.twitter.com/0hcxrDL9kH

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) May 7, 2025

“It’s our gulf,” Greene said in a statement following the bill being favorably reported out of committee in April. “The rightful name is the Gulf of America and it’s what the entire world should refer to it as.”

None of the House-passed bills aimed at codifying President Trump’s executive orders have advanced in the Senate to date. Democrats have successfully filibustered two of them: one imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court, and another prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.