Trump Can’t Unilaterally Rename the Defense Department

The Guardian: “A draft White House fact sheet on Trump’s rebranding initiative implicitly acknowledges that only Congress can formally change the department’s name, saying that the order would authorize the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to propose legislation that would make the change permanent.”

“In the meantime, the order instructs Hegseth and the department to start using ‘Department of War’ as a secondary title in official correspondence, public communications and executive branch documents. The order also authorizes Hegseth to refer to himself as the ‘secretary of war.'”