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A decadelong bipartisan effort to build a women\u2019s history museum in Washington is nearing the finish line, but a bill to make it happen now has a lot less Democratic support than it did just a month ago.<\/p>\n

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The House is set to vote Thursday on legislation that would secure a location on the National Mall for the previously approved Smithsonian American Women\u2019s History Museum. Recent GOP revisions, though, prompted scores of Democrats to say they won\u2019t vote for the measure in its current form.<\/p>\n

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The legislation, authored in February 2025 by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., has 231 co-sponsors, including 127 Democrats. At the end of last year, the bill had such strong bipartisan backing that even Republicans had grown frustrated with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for not bringing it to the floor.<\/p>\n

But Democratic support for the bill has dwindled in recent weeks as House Democrats say an amended version would give President Donald Trump unilateral control over the museum\u2019s ultimate site and its construction.<\/p>\n

The revised bill that\u2019s set to hit the House floor specifies the museum\u2019s site \u2014 near the U.S. Holocaust Museum \u2014 and adds that the president may designate an \u201calternative site\u201d within 180 days of the bill\u2019s passing. It would also give the Smithsonian\u2019s Board of Regents the license to \u201cplan, design and construct\u201d the museum\u2019s building, subject to the approval of a set of architectural planning boards consisting of members who were handpicked by Trump.<\/p>\n

Those boards would also be tasked with approving a slate of architectural projects Trump has spearheaded during his second term, like the White House ballroom and a triumphal arch.<\/p>\n

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The Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus announced its formal opposition to the bill Monday after last month asking Johnson to restore the previous version of the bill.<\/p>\n

They said that, in addition to giving Trump control over the museum\u2019s site and design, the \u201celeventh-hour amendment\u201d included language that said only \u201cbiological women\u201d could be included in the museum, which they said targeted transgender women and girls and invited arbitrary enforcement. They also took issue with the legislation\u2019s being unpaired from a plan to build a national museum for the American Latino.<\/p>\n

Malliotakis said in an interview Wednesday that Democrats were \u201chiding behind\u201d Trump\u2019s having control to change the museum\u2019s site, arguing that their opposition was rooted solely in the inclusion of a phrase that specified the museum would include only \u201cbiological women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrats started pulling out of the bill when an amendment was passed in the [House] Administration Committee that simply added clarification to that \u2014 that the museum is restricted to biological women only. I mean, it\u2019s a women\u2019s history museum. The fact that they would pull their support because it says it in the bill that it would only exhibit biological women is ludicrous to me,\u201d Malliotakis said.<\/p>\n

She added that she has been working closely with the White House and the Interior Department on the museum\u2019s site and that the location could change only if the currently planned spot proved to be \u201cnot buildable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., lambasted the amended bill, saying in a statement that Democrats had worked in \u201cgood faith to build bipartisan support\u201d and that Republicans were the ones who added \u201cculture war language.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cRepublicans shattered that bipartisan agreement by handing President Trump unilateral authority over where the Museum will be located, overriding the bipartisan Smithsonian planning process Congress worked on for years, just so Trump can turn it into another one of his personal political projects,\u201d Chu said. \u201cThen they layered on divisive anti-trans culture war language that had nothing to do with the original bipartisan bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Teresa Leger Fern\u00e1ndez of New Mexico, chair of the Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus, called the revised bill an example of Republicans\u2019 being \u201ctrans obsessed\u201d and ceding control to Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a simple bill. You kind of ruined it with your trans obsession and your culture wars,\u201d Leger Fern\u00e1ndez said.<\/p>\n

Johnson weighed in Wednesday, telling reporters that the \u201cbiological women\u201d phrase had made Democrats \u201crun for the hills.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrats may be OK ceding control of their party to the most radical far-left people in the country, but Republicans are not going to be any party to that. We\u2019re not going to stand for it, and neither are the overwhelming majority of Americans who still believe in common sense,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

The partisan divisions are in sharp contrast to earlier support from lawmakers in both parties, as illustrated by Malliotakis\u2019 using the bill as a cudgel against Johnson in December, when she blamed him for delaying a floor vote as other Republican women openly expressed their frustration with him over a variety of issues. She said in an interview in January that she was given private assurances that Johnson would move the bill along.<\/p>\n

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The bipartisan goodwill was still publicly on display at an NBC News event last month with Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., and Malliotakis, who called the museum \u201ccritically important\u201d to knowing the story of \u201camazing women who have come before us, who have helped us build this nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referring to the actor who played Wonder Woman in the 1970s, Lynda Carter, an advocate for building the museum, Dingell said at the event: \u201cWe don\u2019t look at this as Democrats or Republicans or Wonder Woman. We look at it as people in this country should know the history of so many incredible women.\u201d<\/p>\n

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