Following the end of World War II, the United States renamed the government body overseeing the nation’s military from the Department of War to the Department of Defense, a move that President Donald Trump lamented last week as a mistake.

One week later, Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee has introduced a bill to change the name back to the Department of War.

“For the first 150 years of our military’s history, Americans defeated their enemies and protected their homeland under the War Department,” Lee said in a news release Tuesday, echoing Trump’s Oval Office comments on the post-World War II shift.

In June, Trump called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “secretary of war” at a NATO summit , saying the department was renamed in an effort to be politically correct. Then, last week, Trump claime

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