[PaulDavisThe1st]

Under US Code, it is the US Congress that names departments. It is not up to an individual officer in the US military, or the administration, to rename them.

I'm expending a fraction of a fraction of 1% on this, and I am in no way defending the euphimism. I am defending the actual written down, legal way in the US government is supposed to operate, which despite its many failings, seems worth defending to me.