House GOP presses ahead with Trump's Department of War name change
(Politico) President Donald Trump's campaign to rebrand the Pentagon as the Department of War won another victory on Wednesday when Republicans on the panel that controls military funding voted to formally endorse the renaming.
The House Appropriations Committee adopted the change during deliberations on its $1.1 trillion defense funding bill. The vote marks the third panel to agree to permanently ditch the existing nearly 80-year-old Department of Defense name.
Appropriators voted 32-25 along party lines to adopt a Republican-only slate of amendments to the Pentagon funding bill that also targeted diversity and inclusion efforts, abortion and other wedge issues that have spurred partisan rancor on the influential spending panel in recent years.
The vote sets the stage for yet another partisan brawl in the coming months, with lawmakers already split over Trump's record-shattering $1.5 trillion defense budget request. The House and Senate Armed Services Committees separately voted along party lines to include the name change in their drafts of the annual defense authorization bill. A final version of that legislation must be adopted by both chambers before becoming law.
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