Pentagon Has 3 Years To Change Confederate Names

Politico reports:

Lawmakers’ rebuke of President Donald Trump’s efforts to tank annual defense policy legislation last week has paved the way for a yearslong process to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military bases and scrub other monuments to the secession.

But there are still unanswered questions about the nascent process, which must kick off by March, including who will ultimately pick the new names of bases, who will serve on the panel and whether President-elect Joe Biden could preempt some of the panel’s work with a speedier executive action of his own after Inauguration Day.

The National Defense Authorization Act mandates the removal of Confederate names from Defense Department-owned property within three years and tasks an eight-member commission with developing a plan to carry it out.

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