Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
WASHINGTON — 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.
, who's running for governor of the state, wrote Tuesday in a post on X, adding that Congress instead should focus on reauthorizing the FAA 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.
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