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House GOP presses ahead with Trump's Department of War name change

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.

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Everything else aside, does anybody know what is the estimated cost of this name change would be?

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According to the article, the CBO estimated it would cost $125 million.

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I don't see the logic in this one. Doesn't flatter his ego, line his pocket or hurt somebody he doesn't like.

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They are nothing if not spineless little weasels eager to waste tax money on pleasing the worst in the United States.

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especially considering they started a war, lost, then had to bribe the winning country to stop and essentially caved...

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You reached the end