President Donald Trump’s whimsical decision to return the Department of Defense to a title it has not otherwise held in almost a century may well wind up costing the U.S. taxpayer up to $2 billion.

The MAGA administration’s move to swap the current name out for the far more menacing “Department of War,” as it was known from its founding in 1789 until 1949, would necessitate re-doing thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of letterheads, badges, placards and signs at offices and on bases not only in the U.S. but around the world, NBC News reports.

Six people privy to ongoing conversations about the cost, among them two GOP and two Democratic Congressional staffers, told the outlet that letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul li

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