diff --git a/.github/actions-scripts/projects.js b/.github/actions-scripts/projects.js
index 83d255436a..8c96c6f8c6 100644
--- a/.github/actions-scripts/projects.js
+++ b/.github/actions-scripts/projects.js
@@ -161,8 +161,10 @@ export function generateUpdateProjectNextItemFieldMutation({
   function generateMutationToUpdateField({ item, fieldID, value, literal = false }) {
     const parsedValue = literal ? `value: "${value}"` : `value: ${value}`
 
+    // Strip "=" out of the item ID when creating the mutation ID to avoid a GraphQL parsing error
+    // (statistically, this should still give us a unique mutation ID)
     return `
-      set_${fieldID.substr(1)}_item_${item}: updateProjectNextItemField(input: {
+      set_${fieldID.substr(1)}_item_${item.replaceAll('=', '')}: updateProjectNextItemField(input: {
         projectId: $project
         itemId: "${item}"
         fieldId: ${fieldID}