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| https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senator-collins-joins-bipartisan-group-calling-defense-department-reinstate-funding-stars | Senator Collins Joins Bipartisan Group in Calling on Defense Department to Reinstate Funding for Stars & Stripes Newspaper | 2020-09-02 | 2020 | 2020-09 | Republican | House | ME | Susan Collins | C001035 | www.collins.senate.gov | legacy | Washington, D.C. U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) joined Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and a bipartisan group of their colleagues incalling on the Department of Defenseto reinstate funding for theStars and Stripesnewspaper. The Department of Defense currently plans to stop publishing the newspaper at the end of this month and dissolve the organization by January 31, 2021. The $15.5 million currently allocated for the publication ofStars and Stripesis only a tiny fraction of your Department's annual budget, and cutting it would have a significantly negative impact on military families and a negligible impact on the Department's bottom line,theSenators wrote. Stars and Stripesis a historically significant publication in our country. It originated during the Civil War and has been published continuously since World War II to provide independent, nonpartisan, and award-winning journalism to more than 1.4 million readers among our active duty forces, veterans, civilians, and their families. Stars and Stripesis an essential part of our nation's freedom of the press that serves the very population charged with defending that freedom,the Senatorscontinued. Therefore, we respectfully request that you rescind your decision to discontinue support forStars and Stripesand that you reinstate the funding necessary for it to continue operations. Along with Senators Collins and Feinstein, the letter was signed by Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), John Boozman (R-AR), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Patty Murray (D-WA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Christopher Van Hollen (D-MD), Doug Jones (D-AL), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). ClickHEREto read the full letter. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |