Two Democratic senators have introduced legislation that would see Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth foot the bill for the costs associated with changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

The name change is part of an effort by the Trump administration to project a powerful image on the global stage. Hegseth has said the name change would show that the United States is “not just defense, we’re offense.”

“We won World War I, and we won World War II, not with the Department of Defense, but with a War Department, with the Department of War,” Hegseth told Fox News in August. The proposed change could cost taxpayers billions when accounting for new stationery, plaques, emblems, and signage at hundreds of Pentagon agencies and bases around the world.

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