The “Department of War” was changed to the “National Military Establishment” by the National Security Act of 1947, and then to “Department of Defense” by the Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958.
Absent an act of Congress changing its name again, the official and legal name is still “Department of Defense”. Journalists accepting the new nickname uncritically are endorsing an unconstitutional power grab, and should be ridiculed and shamed for doing so.
It’s not like Republicans don’t have majorities in both houses of Congress sufficient to change the name, or even that congressional dems would waste their political energy opposing the vain renaming of a post-WW2 agency.
The “Department of War” was changed to the “National Military Establishment” by the National Security Act of 1947, and then to “Department of Defense” by the Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958.
Absent an act of Congress changing its name again, the official and legal name is still “Department of Defense”. Journalists accepting the new nickname uncritically are endorsing an unconstitutional power grab, and should be ridiculed and shamed for doing so.
It’s not like Republicans don’t have majorities in both houses of Congress sufficient to change the name, or even that congressional dems would waste their political energy opposing the vain renaming of a post-WW2 agency.
Republicans like “Noooo don’t deadname my special thing! Nooooo!!”
The anti-pronoun party once again fully understanding the concepts and yet showing us once again that the point is the cruelty, not consistency.
If the country survives we really need congress to officially name a DC public toilet for the current fascist
Calling it the Department of War was like the one good thing they’ve ever done. It’s the actual truth instead of the Orwellian nonsense