The United States Coast Guard and the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantisresponded immediately to the president’s executive orders donald trump to deploy assets on maritime borders and use the name “Gulf of America” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico.
A press release from the federal maritime agency referred to the Gulf of America when referring to “the maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the Gulf of America.”
The Coast Guard is subordinate to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and patrols the Gulf in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Their website still uses the name Gulf of Mexico, but The name change is already being used in its official communications.
Ron DeSantis also accepted the name change of the Gulf of Mexico
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also quickly endorsed Trump’s executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
In an order that issued about this week’s winter storm, DeSantis referred to an “area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America.”
But changing the name of a body of water that is an integral part of Florida it might not be so simple.
A computer search of Florida laws shows that at least 55 statutes include references to the Gulf of Mexicowhile local government ordinances are also linked to the traditional name.
And some of these ordinances are fundamental, since delimit the territory of a countyFor example, as with legal descriptions of gulf front county boundaries from Escambia to Collier, which include references to the Gulf of Mexico, according to CBSNews.
Florida lawmakers and DeSantis might have a way to update state laws to change references from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The Legislature regularly passes what are known as “revision bills” that do things like change language in laws.
Revision bills generally pass easily without controversy. But Trump’s executive order on the Gulf of America has attracted attention throughout Florida and other parts of the country.
President Trump’s executive order instructs the secretary of the Department of the Interior to update federal records and maps to reflect the name change.
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