LOADING ERROR LOADINGA little over two months after President Donald Trump announced a rebrand of the Department of Defense to rename it the Department of War, an NBC News report citing six people with knowledge of the matter has revealed the potential cost: up to $2 billion. AdvertisementThe rename would require thousands of signs, placards, letterheads and badges to be changed, according to two senior Republican congressional staffers, two senior Democratic congressional staffers and two anonymous people briefed on the cost, per NBC News. The four staffers and one of the people briefed added that new letterheads and signage alone could cost taxpayers $1 billion. The staffers said rewriting the code for all of the department’s websites and internal applications would also be significantly expensive. “That’s why we have officially renamed the Department of Defense back to the original Department of War.”AdvertisementA new sign featuring the name change was spotted in September outside Hegseth's office.
