President Biden is expected to sign the bill at an event with Kamala Harris on Thursday afternoon after it moved through Congress, with 14 Republican members voting against and saying it opposed July 4.
"It’s Juneteenth AND reparations. It’s Juneteenth AND ends police violence + the War on Drugs. It’s Juneteenth AND end housing + education apartheid. It’s Juneteenth AND teaches the truth about white supremacy in our country," she wrote in a tweet Wednesday night. "Black liberation in its totality must be prioritized," the Missouri Democrat encouraged.
The fourteen House Republicans chose against the bill for June 19 to become a "National Independence Day" because they believe it would produce "confusion" with Independence Day on July 4 and claimed the move was an effort from the left to push "identity politics".
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Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie said: "I fully support creating a day to celebrate the abolition of slavery.
"However, naming this day National Independence Day will create confusion and push Americans to pick one of those two days as their Independence Day based on their racial identity."
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Massie said he would prefer it be called "Emancipation Day".
The act cleared the Senate by popular approval Tuesday after a Republican in the chamber ended his opposition. With the House passing it in a 415-14 vote, the bill now travels to President Joe Biden for his signature.
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President Biden is expected to sign the bill later on Thursday at an event with vice president Kamala Harris.
Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana said an attempt by the left to push "identity politics".
"Let's call an ace an ace," the lawmaker said on Wednesday. "This is an effort by the left to create a day out of whole cloth to celebrate identity politics as part of its larger efforts to make 'critical race theory' the reigning ideology of our country.
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"Since I believe in treating everyone equally, regardless of race, and that we should be focused on what unites us rather than our differences, I will vote 'no''.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy agreed with Massie that the day should be called "Emancipation Day" and said the new holiday is going to be seen as conflicting with July 4.
"It's been referred to in our history as Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day, Freedom Day. I would be amenable to any of those names. I don't believe that the title National Independence Day, I think, works."
Texas Rep. Ronnie Jackson told USA Today the country already had "enough" national holidays.
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