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How Trump stole America’s 250th birthday.
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Donald Trump hijacked what should have been a national celebration of unity and bent it for his own interests. Congress had created “America250,” a non-partisan commission to create a multifaceted observance of the Declaration of Independence. But Trump created “Freedom 250” by executive order to take over the patriotic milestone.
California Rep. Jared Huffman, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, released a 55-page report accusing Freedom 250 of turning the anniversary into a "hotbed of corruption and self-enrichment" that could amount to fraud.
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