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Defense Sec. Austin replaces Trump appointees on panel to strip Confederate names from bases
I'm impressed by Secretary Austin. It's like he's been waiting his whole career to fix the DOD.
President Joe Biden and his top officials are once again showing that they won’t hesitate to throw out the terrible, often last-minute, appointees Donald Trump tried to seed throughout the government. This time, the effort is to de-Trumpify a panel tasked with stripping Confederate names off of military bases and other property.
Congress only overrode one Trump veto during his four years in the White House—after Trump vetoed a defense bill to protect the names of military bases honoring Confederate traitors to the United States. The veto override passed the defense bill putting into place a three-year process to strip Confederate names off of bases, buildings, streets, ships, aircraft, and more, with an eight-member panel doing the work involved. But Trump, of course, tried to stack that panel with his people at the last minute. Now, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has replaced them with more diverse members with more respect for history.
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source: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/19/2021826/-Defense-Sec-Austin-replaces-Trump-appointees-on-panel-to-strip-Confederate-names-from-bases
