A watchdog group on Thursday called on the Interior Department to produce financial details about one of the Trump administration’s initiatives to celebrate the United States’s semiquincentennial.
The development appears to mark an effort designed to ensure that Freedom 250, a semiquincentennial initiative being spearheaded by President Donald Trump, does not gain access to any of the funds lawmakers appropriated last year toward marking the country’s 250th birthday. The Interior Department was tasked with dispersing those funds.
In a letter to the federal agency, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility suggested Freedom 250 unlawfully diverted at least $100 million in taxpayer funds “earmarked for America250,” an organization established by Congress that holds an official role in promoting the semiquincentennial. The text from Trump’s 2025 One Big
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