‘We’re just gonna do it’ Trump says he plans to ignore Act of Congress needed to rename Department of Defense

'We're just gonna do it' Trump says he plans to ignore Act of Congress needed to rename DODSource: CPSAN

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00:00And on the Department of War, how do you plan to do that?

00:02It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department to the Department of War.

00:06We're just going to do it. I'm sure Congress will go along if we need that.

00:09I don't think we even need that. But if we need that, I'm sure Congress will go along.

00:14You know, that was the name when we were, we won World War I, we won World War II,

00:20we won everything. And just to me, seems like just a much more appropriate.

00:26The other is defense is too defensive. And we want to be defensive,

00:31but we want to be offensive, too, if we have to be.

00:33So it just sounded to me better. Really like a better name. Yeah.