Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth restored the names of Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, which were originally named for Confederate generals.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been criticized for attempting to rename military bases to honor Confederate officers, with Rep. Don Bacon calling his approach “stupid as hell”.

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GOP Rep. Don Bacon, who helped lead the effort to change military base names, voted for a draft law defunding efforts to reverse the changes.

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With Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials by his side at Fort Bragg, Trump watched as troops crawled through the marsh, showed off military hardware and parachuted from planes.

Hegseth touted the renaming in a video posted to social media after signing the name-change memo earlier this year. “That’s right. Bragg is back,” he said in the video. Updated at 4:30 p.m. EDT.