Trump’s department of war rebrand ‘won’t strengthen national security or help military personnel’ – US politics live

Democrat Tammy Duckworth, an injured veteran, says money should go towards helping military families and preventing conflicts

Trump expected to rebrand Pentagon as ‘Department of War’

President Donald Trump’s deal-making approach to diplomacy is “quite cynical”, but in a positive sense, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Friday.

In an interview with Russian news outlet Argumenty i Fakty, Peskov contrasted Trump’s position with that of European countries which, he said, were doing everything they could to hinder a peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine.

Why not put this money toward supporting military families or toward employing diplomats that help prevent conflicts from starting in the first place?

Because Trump would rather use our military to score political points than to strengthen our national security and support our brave servicemembers and their families - that’s why