Hegseth To Pentagon: No Online Juneteenth Messages

June 19, 2025 Military, Trump Administration

Rolling Stone reports:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office requested “a passive approach to Juneteenth messaging” for the holiday on Thursday commemorating the end of slavery, according to an email obtained by Rolling Stone. The news was relayed by the Pentagon’s Office of the Chief of Public Affairs, which said it wasn’t planning to publish Juneteenth-related content online, per the email.

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865, after the Civil War ended, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and announced that the enslaved Americans in the state had been freed. June 19 was made into a federal holiday under a law signed by former President Joe Biden in 2021. The bill passed the Senate unanimously and with broad bipartisan support in the U.S. House.

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Pete Hegseth asked the Pentagon to take a “passive approach” to honoring Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end of slavery

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