The State Department has solved the problem of too much freedom by offering one location, one design, and zero walk-ins.
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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.
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.
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.
The federal government is now issuing commemorative passports featuring President Trump's image — but only in person, only in Washington, D.C., and only by appointment. For Americans who would prefer their travel documents not include the president's portrait, officials have devised an equally streamlined solution: request the bigger booklet.
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.
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.
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.
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.