CNN — Brushing aside President Donald Trump’s veto threat, the House and Senate marched forward this week with plans rename military bases named after Confederate leaders, teeing up a showdown with the President later this year. The provisions requiring the names of the bases to be changed – the Senate’s bill gives the Pentagon three years, while the House requires …
CNN — US Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper are said to be open to holding a “bipartisan conversation” about renaming nearly a dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders, according to an Army official. In a statement Monday, the Army confirmed that McCarthy and Esper are “open to a …
