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Republican members of the Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to a spending bill that would rename the venue after the first lady.
The effort, which was advanced Tuesday by the House Appropriations Committee, would dub the Kennedy Center’s Opera House as the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.” The theater is not currently named after any individual.
House Republicans are ready to do some rebranding. On Thursday, GOP members of the House Appropriations Committee voted to rename the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts after Melania Trump.
The first lady has only made one prominent appearance at the Kennedy Center since becoming its honorary chair in January. When she stepped into the room that could soon bear her name, she was met with
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Daily Express US on MSNRussia issues three-word threat to Melania Trump after advising Trump on Ukraine policyA Russian newspaper said that the First Lady was a "danger" to Moscow and suggested that her husband, President Donald Trump, "would be better off buying her shoes".
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Russian state TV took aim at Melania Trump, saying she is responsible for her husband's apparently tougher stance toward Putin.