Nation Celebrates 250 Years of Self-Governance By Allegedly Stealing Its Own Birthday Money
Congress funded a bipartisan birthday commission; someone reportedly gave donors the wrong wire number; the party went on as planned.
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Nation Celebrates 250th Birthday By Arguing Over Which Birthday Committee Is The Real Birthday Committee
America turns 250 this weekend, and the festivities are going great — if you ignore the 55-page congressional report alleging that donors who tried to fund the official bipartisan birthday commission were quietly handed the wrong bank account number. Two organizations with nearly identical names are now locked in a patriotic turf war over $100 million, a state fair on the National Mall, and the soul of the republic.
President Refuses To Accept Victory Until Second, Different Victory Also Achieved
In a governing milestone experts are calling 'unprecedented,' President Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bill that passed 358-32 in the House and 85-5 in the Senate — both veto-proof margins — to protest the Senate's failure to pass a separate, unrelated bill. The unsigned bill will become law in ten days anyway, making this the first known case of a president vetoing his own win.
Pentagon Confirms Flu Outbreak At Base Where Flu Vaccines Were Just Made Optional Is Completely Unrelated To Flu Vaccines Being Made Optional
After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the military's flu-shot mandate 'overly broad and not rational' in April, roughly 300 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base contracted the flu. The Pentagon has since quietly restored the mandate, with an official emphasizing — on the record — that the reinstatement has nothing to do with the outbreak.
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Nation Celebrates 250 Years of Self-Governance By Allegedly Stealing Its Own Birthday Money
When Congress created America250 in 2016 to plan the nation's semiquincentennial, it probably did not anticipate that a decade later a rival LLC would allegedly intercept its donor wire transfers. Freedom 250 calls the accusations a 'partisan smear'; the birthday cake remains uneaten by at least one of the parties involved.
Nation Celebrates 250th Birthday By Arguing Over Which Birthday Committee Is The Real Birthday Committee
America turns 250 this weekend, and the festivities are going great — if you ignore the 55-page congressional report alleging that donors who tried to fund the official bipartisan birthday commission were quietly handed the wrong bank account number. Two organizations with nearly identical names are now locked in a patriotic turf war over $100 million, a state fair on the National Mall, and the soul of the republic.
President Refuses To Accept Victory Until Second, Different Victory Also Achieved
In a governing milestone experts are calling 'unprecedented,' President Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bill that passed 358-32 in the House and 85-5 in the Senate — both veto-proof margins — to protest the Senate's failure to pass a separate, unrelated bill. The unsigned bill will become law in ten days anyway, making this the first known case of a president vetoing his own win.
Pentagon Confirms Flu Outbreak At Base Where Flu Vaccines Were Just Made Optional Is Completely Unrelated To Flu Vaccines Being Made Optional
After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the military's flu-shot mandate 'overly broad and not rational' in April, roughly 300 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base contracted the flu. The Pentagon has since quietly restored the mandate, with an official emphasizing — on the record — that the reinstatement has nothing to do with the outbreak.
Nation's Most Expensive Puddle To Be Drained, Repainted, Re-Algaed
After spending $14 million to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool 'American flag blue,' federal crews deployed hydrogen peroxide, a $1.7 million nanobubble ozone machine, and industrial vacuums — only for the paint to peel off on its own and the president to blame knife-wielding vandals. At least one person was reportedly arrested for touching a piece of paint that was already floating away.