Democrats denounced the name change, but Republicans held the line.<\/p>\n
Floridians will soon have the option to use a South Florida airport named after the President they voted to put into the White House three times in the last decade.<\/p>\n
Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a> has signed Rep. Meg Weinberger\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0bill (HB 919<\/a>), preempting major commercial airport names to the state and naming\u00a0Palm Beach International<\/a>\u00a0Airport<\/a>\u00a0for President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n The law makes the brand identity name change at PBI contingent on Federal Aviation Administration approval and an agreement between Palm Beach County and Trump for the commercial use of his name. That agreement is a cinch given that the county supported the bill throughout the process.<\/p>\n It also preempts the names of major commercial airports in the state, all of which will remain as is except for the Palm Beach facility, which will be the President Donald J. Trump International Airport.<\/p>\n Weinberger, a West Palm Beach Republican, told a House committee that the renaming honors \u201cleadership and legacy\u201d and is for good reason, as Palm Beach \u201cis the home of the President\u201d and the airport is \u201cjust down the street from where he lives.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a two-term President. It will happen in his lifetime. Why not honor him while he\u2019s the President in his hometown? And this is the first President that we\u2019ve had in Florida,\u201d Weinberger said.<\/p>\n House Democratic Leader\u00a0Fentrice Driskell is not a fan of this bill becoming law, as she said Monday after the signing.<\/p>\n \u201cLife keeps getting more expensive for working families and seniors in Florida, which is why Democrats spent this legislative session fighting for an affordability agenda to lower costs and put more money back in your pocket. Instead of working across the aisle with us to advance those bills, Republicans leaders decided to prioritize wasting five million of your taxpayer dollars on renaming an airport after the President. Your money is being misused to celebrate the man who caused gas prices to rise to over four dollars a gallon, grocery costs to shoot up, and health care prices to spike. Republicans are out of touch when it comes to the real issues impacting Floridians. The people of Florida did not ask for this. It\u2019s clear Tallahassee Republicans care more about political stunts than they care about your wallet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrats denounced the name change, but Republicans held the line. Floridians will soon have the option to use…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,97206,97207,4007,10862,97208,412],"class_list":["post-212541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hb-919","tag-maga-meg-weinberger","tag-meg-weinberger","tag-palm-beach-international-airport","tag-president-donald-j-trump-international-airport","tag-ron-desantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}