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.

A House Republican’s bill would strip former President 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.” The bill, recently introduced by Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.), aims to “designate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing…