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Pentagon Announces 'Next Generation' Press Corps
- raw_anon_1111 1y agohttps://archive.is/2025.10.22-233212/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/business/media/pentagon-press-reporters.html https://archive.is/2025.10.22-233212/https://www.nytimes.com... This is not a conservative vs liberal event. Fox News and the NYTimes among others refused to agree to the new policy.
- final_aeon 1y agoWhy are they refusing to call it the War department?
- sigwinch 1y agoIt’ll be changed in US Code, by Congress. Right now, Hegseth is actually Secretary of Defense.
- dc396 1y agoSee https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest..., section 2(e): "Statutory references to the Department of Defense, Secretary of Defense, and subordinate officers and components shall remain controlling until changed subsequently by the law." That is, until a law is passed by Congress, DoD is the primary, controlling title (DoW is an "additional secondary title" according to the EO).