Just last week, House Republicans approved an amendment to a spending bill that would designate the Kennedy Center’s Opera House as the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) introduced the amendment, which passed the Appropriations Committee by a vote of 33–25.

House Republicans have advanced a proposal to rename the Kennedy Center's Opera House, one of the center's major theaters, the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.”