WASHINGTON – Three Democratic congressmen introduced a bill Friday to rename a federal prison in Miami after former President Donald Trump.
The draft law Act — Proposed by Representative Gerry Connolly of Virginia; Jared Moskowitz, Florida; and John Garamendi of California – come in response event was presented A group of House Republicans has decided to rename Washington Dulles International Airport in honor of Trump.
The Democratic bill would rename the Miami Federal Correctional Facility in Florida to the “Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Facility.”
“When our Republican colleagues introduced a bill to rename Dulles after Donald Trump, I said that renaming the federal prison was a better option,” Connolly said. “I hope our Republican friends will join us in giving Donald J. Trump the only honor he truly deserves.”
He is facing Trump multiple federal criminal charges Florida is charged with sensitive government misconduct, including willfully withholding national defense information, making false statements and representations, conspiracy to obstruct justice, concealing a document or record, and corruptly concealing a document. He has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting a new trial in the case.
Trump also faces a state criminal case in New York, where he is accused of falsifying business records. silence payment In the final days of the 2016 presidential election, adult film star Stormi Daniels was paid. He has pleaded not guilty in the case, which is scheduled to begin jury selection April 15.
The former president is accused of attempting to illegally annul the results of the 2020 presidential elections. Georgia state court and in federal court Trial dates in Washington, D.C. have not been set in either case, and the D.C. case has been stayed pending resolution of Trump’s appeal of presidential immunity. The US Supreme Court is preparing for hearings arguments on that appeal April 25. Trump pleaded not guilty in both cases.
“Everybody knows that President Trump likes to put his name in gold letters on all of his buildings,” Moskowitz said. “But his name has never been on a federal building before, and as a public servant, I just want to help the former president. Help make this dream come true.”
The draft law Act The Dulles name change follows Trump’s filing last Friday. He raps. It was sponsored by Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., the deputy majority whip, and six other Republicans: Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Florida; Andrew Ogles, Tennessee; Chuck Fleischmann, Tennessee; Paul Gosar, Arizona; Barry Moore, Alabama; and Troy Nehls, Texas.
Reschenthaler tweeted about the effort earlier this week. “Freedom. prosperity. Power. This is exactly what America stood for under President Donald J. Trump, the best president of my lifetime,” Reschenthaler wrote. Writing in X. “And that’s why I’m introducing a bill to rename Dulles as Donald J. Trump International Airport.”
Opened in 1962, the airport is named after John Foster Dulles, who served as Secretary of State under President Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.