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The president changed it back to its original name with an executive order. The administration did not just start spontaneously using it.
by charcircuit 8mo ago
The president changed it back to its original name with an executive order. The administration did not just start spontaneously using it.
- PaulDavisThe1st 8mo agoThe president has no authority to do this. Federal departments and agencies are named by Congress, and even the Republicans in Congress have shown no interest in formalizing this.
- charcircuit 8mo agoThe president can't change the law itself, but he can change the name they use.
- PaulDavisThe1st 8mo agoThe law defines the name they should be using
- charcircuit 8mo agoIt's not like there is a law that says they have to use that name on their X account or what domain to use for their website or emails.
- PaulDavisThe1st 8mo agoSure, no such law that I know of. But there's also no law that suggests that anybody else needs to refer to the Department of Defense using terms that the president and his minions just made up out of thin air. I'm also arguing that going along with them, by itself, is harmful to a democratic government.
- herewulf 8mo agoNo, the Department of War is the former name of the Department of the Army and nothing else. DoD is a new creation that includes the Army, historic Department of the Navy, and the other, post-WW2, new services. "Changing it back" is completely ahistoric.