Hats off to the Atlantic and Washington Post for saving Stars & Stripes.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) September 4, 2020
Top ‘Trending – Political’ story on the Twitter sidebar:
Trump says Stars and Stripes, the military’s independent newspaper, will not be shuttered
On Friday morning, news broke that the Pentagon had ordered the closure of the 160-year-old Stars and Stripes newspaper at the end of September. President Trump Tweeted that his administration “will NOT be cutting funding” for the publication.
‘Course, now we have to hold the bastid to it…
Note: The slashing of Stars and Stripes funding was proposed earlier this year in *Trump's own budget request to Congress* https://t.co/UDT50dcJ11
— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) September 4, 2020
I suspect the release of those articles in the Atlantic and the Washington Post just *might* not be serendipity…
Story indicates this can’t happen without Congress agreeing, and lawmakers are lining up against it. But still, what a message for the Trump administration to send to the troops. https://t.co/hqfU1p1R74
— Nahal Toosi (@nahaltoosi) September 4, 2020
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