Republican-led Senate panel backs stripping Confederate names from military bases

The Republican-led US Senate Armed Services Committee voted to require the Department of Defense to rename military bases named after Confederate generals, setting up a clash with President Donald Trump, who opposes that change and promised a veto.

The committee approved the measure, proposed by Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren (photo, above), as an amendment to the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a US$740 billion bill (RM3.144 trillion) setting policy for the Pentagon, announced on Thursday...