Donald Trump The White House said it is expected to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the U.S. Department of Defense to rebrand the “Defense Department” as part of the White House trying to formally change the name without Congressional action.
A government official said the order would designate the Department of War as a “secondary title” to address the need for Congress to approve the formal renaming of federal agencies.
But the order will direct the rest of the executive to use the “Ministry of War” name in internal and external communications and allow the Secretary of Defense to Pete Hegseth Other officials have made the “Minister of War” the official champion.
The order appears to be acknowledging the limitations of executive action – also directing Heggs to recommend potential legislative measures the government can take to rename the Ministry of Defense for permanent renaming.
Trump and Trump and Hegseth have been publicly pushing for rebranding for weeks, claiming that the change will show that the U.S. military is more aggressive to the world by restoring the name used by the United States when it won World War I and World War II.
“Everyone likes that we had an incredible victory history when we were at the Department of War,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last week. “We then changed it to the Department of Defense.”
When asked about the Congressional approval needed to change the name of the federal agency, Trump suggested that the administration treat it as a form. He said: “We just have to do that.
White House officials privately advised Thursday that they were eager to do something symbolic to commemorate the 200th day of Trump’s second term.
Shortly after World War II, the U.S. government was in the war department, when the Truman administration split the U.S. and Air Force and merged it with the Navy. In 1949, Congress The National Security Law has been revisednamed the new agency, the Ministry of Defense.
The White House argued that the name changed the power of power and preparedness to start a war, even as Trump proposed a case where he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
Lauren Gambino, American political journalist at the Guardian, contributes to the report
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