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Inside America's Ugly Birthday Battle
So now they don't want to spend money.
“Spending taxpayer money on frivolous, poorly attended events and D.C. consultants who are trying to get rich off America’s 250th is the exact opposite of what was intended,” the Department of Interior press office told me yesterday in an unsigned statement, when I asked why the America250 money had not been transferred. “This administration will not light taxpayer money on fire. Full stop.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/06/trump-250-great-american-state-fair/687456/
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