Remember the good old days, when men were men and scouts were boys? U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth apparently does, and believes that, in fact, the sun set on those golden days in 2018, when the organization then known as Boy Scouts of America amended its rules to allow girls to join, temporarily going by the name Scouts BSA. Things got darker still on February 5, 2025, when the entity officially changed its name to Scouting America, which welcomes boys and girls.

Hegseth is reportedly prepared to order the government to cut all ties with the organization, ending a relationship that dates back more than a century.

NPR reported Tuesday that the outlet had received drafts of memos Hegseth intends to send to Congress mandating a severing of ties with Scouting America. Hegseth

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