House rejects Smithsonian women’s museum bill after GOP bans ‘biological men’ from exhibits
The bill failed 204-216 after Democrats opposed language limiting the museum to biological women and excluding transgender individuals.
- On Thursday, House Democrats and a handful of conservative Republicans defeated legislation 204–216 that would have secured a National Mall site for the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
- Lawmakers withdrew support after Republicans amended the bill to limit the institution to "biological women" and bar depicting "any biological male as female," codifying a 2025 Trump executive order.
- Democratic Women's Caucus Chairwoman Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., criticized provisions allowing the president to select an "alternative site" within 180 days, claiming it grants unchecked authority over museum content.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., remarked the amendment made Democrats "run for the hills," while chief sponsor Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., called the defeat "a disgrace."
- Although Congress originally authorized the museum in 2020, the recent vote leaves the project's development timeline uncertain as partisan disputes over identity and content stall progress on the National Mall site.
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House Democrats Unanimously Vote Down Women’s History Museum Over Limit to Biological Women
House Democrats unanimously voted this week against legislation to build a new women’s history museum on the National Mall. The reason was an amendment that limited the exhibits to biological women to the exclusion of transgender figures. The museum failed 204-216 as House Democrats hoped that they could still secure a museum including transgender figures...
Six Republicans join Democrats in sinking women's history museum
A handful of House Republicans sounded the death knell on legislation to establish a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on Thursday over concerns that the content of the museum would perpetuate “identity politics” and take up more of the National Mall’s limited space. The bill, led by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), failed 204-216, with no Democratic support. Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the legislation over a GOP requirement that o…
How A Republican Amendment Destroyed Bipartisan Support for Women's History Museum
“Today, the House proved that the Women’s History Museum does not belong to Trump. It belongs to the women whose blood, sweat, and tears paint the picture of America,” Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, who chairs the Democratic Women’s Caucus, said in a statement. Francis Chung/POLITICO/APThe legislative push to establish a Smithsonian museum focused on women’s history had finally seemed to be gaining momentum — a rare bipartisan effort in a deeply p…
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