The Pentagon plans to shut down Stars and Stripes, a longtime publication that covers the U.S. military community and is published for service members around the world, ordering it to cease operations and shutter its newsroom by the end of September under proposed budget cuts.
A Pentagon memo gives the papers publisher until Sept. 15 to outline a procedure that dissolves the Stars and Stripes and begin plans for vacating government owned/leased space worldwide, according to USA Today , which first reported the memo Friday.
Later Friday, President Donald Trump claimed in a tweet that he would NOT be cutting funding to the newspaper, a wonderful source of information to our Great Military.
The United States of America will NOT be cutting funding to @starsandstripes magazine under my watch. It will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our Great Military!
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It will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our Great Military!
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According to the papers editorial director Terry Leonard, the paper received the Pentagon memo and had been preparing contingency plans. But he said he was encouraged by Trumps tweet and cautiously optimistic it would mean that a deal to restore the funding could be reached soon.
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If the presidents tweeted, there probably wont be much resistance from his side, he told HuffPost Friday evening. Were just going to keep doing what were doing. Now we have some hope that we can keep going before this becomes a crisis.
Stars and Stripes is housed under and receives funding from the Department of Defense, but is editorially independent of it. Dating back to the Civil War, it has operated continuously since World War II, publishing print editions around the world for U.S. military members serving overseas.
I filed two stories today, one of which revealed coronavirus was found aboard the USS Ronald Reagan while at sea. We still owe our service members so much, and were going to continue telling their stories as long as we possibly can. #savestarsandstripes https://t.co/HggnZHadRs https://t.co/onHz3Hs8Bj
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We still owe our service members so much, and were going to continue telling their stories as long as we possibly can. #savestarsandstripes https://t.co/HggnZHadRs https://t.co/onHz3Hs8Bj
Caitlin Doornbos (@CaitlinDoornbos) September 4, 2020
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Earlier this week, a bipartisan group of senators urged Defense Secretary Mark Esper to reverse plans to shutter the publication.
Stars and Stripes is an essential part of our nations freedom of the press that serves the very population charged with defending that freedom, the 15 senators wrote in a letter Wednesday. Therefore, we respectfully request that you rescind your decision to discontinue support for Stars and Stripes and that you reinstate the funding necessary for it to continue operations.
According to the letter, the Defense Department plans to cease publication of Stars and Stripes on September 30, 2020 and completely dissolve the organization by January 31, 2021 as a result of the proposed termination of funding in the fiscal year 2021 Presidents budget.
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