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...but the cost of changing the name from the Department of Defense to the Department of War could run into the tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars.
HCR put the figure at billions per Politico! (though I can't believe that at all)
HCR: As Amanda Castro and Hannah Parry of Newsweek note, in August, Trump said he wanted the change because “Defense is too defensive...we want to be offensive too if we have to be.” By law, Congress must approve the change, which Politico estimates will cost billions of dollars, although Trump said: “I'm sure Congress will go along if we need that. I don't think we even need that.” By this evening, nameplates and signage bearing the new name had gone up in government offices and the URL for the Defense Department website had been changed to war [dot] gov.
And the question for the next sane president and congress is whether to spend a similar amount to change the name back to Department of Defense.
