Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and President Donald Trump are close allies. (Getty Images)
"But Democrats today are outraged. They're outraged because they love the cartels more than any other people in the world, more than the American people."
Democratic lawmakers, meanwhile, panned the legislation as a waste of time.
"Republicans think this juvenile legislation is the best use of this House's time. This is the only work we're doing today, folks," Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said in his rebuttal to Greene.
"What a sick joke this is. Republicans worry about 400-year-old words on a map. I worry about families and every community in America that's struggling to get by."
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The Gulf of America borders several southern U.S. states. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Greene hit back at the detractors, however, in response to Fox News Digital's report.
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"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 that bill on that EO too," she wrote on X.
The legislation will now be sent to the Senate, where it must reach a 60-vote threshold – with Democratic support – before it can hit the president's desk.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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