Newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has removed several left-wing legacy media outlets from the Pentagon press offices to create space for newer, conservative news organizations
According to a report by The Daily Mail, a memo revealed that The New York Times, NBC News, NPR, and Politico have been ordered to vacate their Pentagon office spaces by Valentine’s Day. Replacing them will be The New York Post, One America News Network (OAN), and Breitbart News Network. One more left-wing outlet, the Huffington Post, will also be granted office space for one year. While HuffPost did not request office space, spokesperson Lizzie Grams expressed optimism in a comment to NBC News.
“If the Trump administration and Secretary Hegseth are interested in more hard-hitting coverage of their stewardship of the Defense Department from HuffPost, we are ready to deliver,” Grams said.
The decision, announced Friday, is part of Hegseth’s plan to implement a rotating schedule for outlets to use office space. Each rotation will last one year and will include one outlet from print, online, television, and radio be filtered to “allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of