Here's Why Lawmakers Want to Automatically Register Men for Selective Service
Military.com | By Rebecca Kheel
Published July 05, 2024 at 7:46am ET
Cardi B, as it turns out, is not a font of knowledge about the military draft.
Despite misinformation and misunderstandings floating around TikTok, including from the rap superstar with more than 20 million followers on the social media platform, Congress is not on the verge of reinstating a military draft.
Rather, the House has advanced a bipartisan proposal that would automatically register young men with the Selective Service System, something they are already legally required to do.
The legislation's backers say it's a commonsense solution to a yearslong problem: The government is fighting a costly, losing battle to inform young men of their legal requirement to register as the rate of registration keeps declining.
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