President Donald Trump intends to sign a decree on the beginning of the process of renaming the US Department of Defense into the Department of War, the high -ranking representative of the White House of the American media said.
according to the current legislation, the president cannot change the name of the department without the adoption of the relevant law by Congress. However, Trump’s decree will launch all the necessary procedures, and the Pentagon will be entrusted to prepare for this step.
The press daily program for the press says that Trump will make a statement on Friday day, but the topic of the speech is not specified. >
the US Ministry of War was created in 1789 simultaneously with the entry into force of the Constitution of the country. In 1947, two years after the end of World War II, by decision of Congress, it was renamed the Ministry of Defense.