President Trump committed Friday to preserving funding for Stars and Stripes, the military's independent newspaper, following reports that the administration was moving to dissolve the publication
Friday that the Defense Department had instructed Stars and Stripes' publisher last month to discontinue the publication by January. The department had also informed reporters in February that it was planning to reduce funding for the newspaper. The publication receives federal funding but is editorially independent of the military.by The Atlantic that Trump disparaged service members who had died in battle.
"It’s something that all of us here have read," Rep. Ted Lieu said of Stars and Stripes. "I read it in active duty while serving in Guam, and it is something that is improving the quality of life for military families and military personnel, and I can’t understand why we would get rid of the Stars and Stripes.”
Trump's relationship with the military has long been fraught because of his incendiary remarks and comments that appear to reveal a misunderstanding of the military's responsibilities to the presidency. Trump notably tried to put on a e through Washington and used tanks as props during his Fourth of July celebrations in 2019 — both moves that were criticized as using the military for political theatrics.the late Sen. John McCain's experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, saying, in 2015, "I like people who weren't captured."
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