text: Congress already said the state's OHA is a "splinter group" and there is no chance for any splinter group morphing into an entity similar to a tribe. The congress is echoing the US Sp Ct ruling in Rice v Cayetano that found the OHA beneficiaries are a racial group, as quote unquote Hawaiians. The DOI already said the native Hawaiians are a tribe. The only way Hawaiians could become part of the native Hawaiians would be through being allowed to enroll in the native Hawaiian tribe. Hawaiians have really reached the end of the road. The Inouye cronies at the DOJ are now replaced by Trump people. There is still an Inouye crony at the DOI but everyone else is a Trump person now at the BIA.