Earlier this month, the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to a spending bill that would rename the Kennedy Center’s opera house the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House," The Hill and other outlets reported.

Republican members of the Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to a spending bill that would rename the venue after the first lady.

A House Republican’s bill would strip former President John F. Kennedy’s name from the Washington institution created in the 35th commander in chief’s honor and instead have it known as the “Trump Center for the Performing Arts.