Men's Lifestyle July 1, 2026 0 Comments

You Won’t Believe How Much Taxpayer Cash Was Burned Just to Rename the Department of Defense—The Shocking Truth Inside!

Ever wonder how a simple name change could blow a $125 million hole in the budget? Yeah, me neither—until now. Imagine renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War and watching the Congressional Budget Office crunch the numbers like it’s some kind of epic workout routine, only to tell us that the price tag is as steep as a heavyweight champ’s training camp. Russell Vought, the administration’s budget maestro (or budget mischief-maker, depending on who you ask), showed up before the House Appropriations Committee, grinning through the chaos, insisting this splash of cash “makes common sense.” Common sense, huh? That’s a heavyweight claim when you consider that for most of U.S. history, there was no Air Force, no CIA, and certainly no Office of Management and Budget—just a lot of evolving complexity strapped inside that name change. So, what gives? Is tossing $125 million to rename a department a strategic move or just a high-cost flex that leaves us all spotting the bill? Let’s break down this bureaucratic heavyweight brawl and see who’s really packing the punches. LEARN MORE

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Did you know that changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War cost us all $125 million? Well, the Congressional Budget Office would like you to know that. And Russell Vought, the jumped-up sub-level bureaucrat hired by the administration in order to make lives miserable as the director of the budget, would like you to know how much sense that makes.

Vought appeared before a House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. He was at his smarmiest, which is very smarmy indeed. And Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Maryland) asked Vought about what would appear to the conscious mind to be a prodigious waste of money just to make Pete Hegseth feel tingly.

IVEY: Last week at the one of the appropriations markups there was a discussion I know that you’re using the phrase Department of War instead of Department of Defense, but I we were said we were told that the CBO said it’s going to cost $125 million to change the name from Department of Defense to Department of War. Do you do you agree with that estimate?

VOUGHT: We haven’t done our own estimate at OMB on the cost, but it’s something that I think makes common sense; it’s what the department was called for most of our nation’s history.

(Ed. Note: “For most of our nation’s history,” there was no Air Force. Or a CIA. Or an Office of Management and Budget, for all that.)

IVEY: I’m focused on the amount…The nomenclature concerns me less from an Appropriations Committee standpoint than the fact that we’re going to spend $125 million, or so…That’s a lot of money, and we spend a lot of time hearing that a lot of the needs we’d like to fund. We don’t have the money to fund.

It certainly will buy a lot of nameplates. These really are the mole people.