During Trump’s first administration, the Stars and Stripes newspaper had come perilously close to shuttering. In 2020, the Pentagon asked Congress to cut its funding, before ultimately ordering for the paper to be closed.
After a serious bipartisan pushback from lawmakers, Trump reversed course and the newspaper, which is authorized by Congress and the US Department of Defense, and has been a staple for American service members and their families since World War I, was spared.
But the future of the publication was again called into question earlier this month.
In a recent post on social media, Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s top public affairs official and a close adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, announced that the Pentagon would be taking over editorial content…
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