Defense spending bill includes $1M for Army to change Confederate base names
By Rebecca Kheel - 07/07/20 04:31 PM EDT
House Democrats’ version of the annual defense spending bill would give the Army $1 million to help remove Confederate names from bases and other property.
The bill would set aside $1 million from the Army’s operations and maintenance account to use on “expenses for the renaming of Army installations, facilities, roads and streets named after confederate leaders and officers,†according to draft text released by the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday.
The provision is included in the $694.6 billion Pentagon spending bill for fiscal 2021 that the House Appropriations Committee’s defense subpanel is scheduled to consider behind closed doors Wednesday.
A Democratic summary of the bill said the money would be provided because “the Army has the preponderance of the entities to change.†The Army has 10 bases named after Confederate military officers.
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