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US and international news outlets including The New York Times, AP, AFP and Fox News on Tuesday declined to sign new restrictive Pentagon media rules, meaning they will be stripped of their press access credentials.

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Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon

The Pentagon said reporters would need to sign a pledge committing to its rules in order to maintain their press credentials.

Announcement comes as 2 million civilian federal workers at other agencies, including many still reporting to work, go without paychecks.

‘Mr. Hegseth has responded with this lazy use of an emoji to several news organizations that issued statements they are not signing his new anti First Amendment press access policy,’ Barbara Starr posted this week.

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The move marks a stunning departure for the Trump administration, which came to power vowing to stop social-media censorship

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