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Years before<\/span> Poison\u2019s Bret Michaels, Young MC, and the Commodores dropped out of this summer\u2019s concert series on the National Mall celebrating America\u2019s 250th birthday, planners envisioned a Smithsonian-led blockbuster festival stretching from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Capitol that would be open to all and free of partisanship. They wanted a party bigger than the Folklife Festival, an annual two-week summer exhibition, and much longer-lasting. This new \u201cFestival of Festivals\u201d would focus on the semiquincentennial, with four to six weeks of performances, workshops, and displays to \u201ccelebrate the nation\u2019s successes,\u201d \u201ccontemplate the consequences of our history,\u201d and \u201ccommit to advancing our multicultural democracy,\u201d according to a November 27, 2023, memo that I obtained.<\/p>\n

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But last summer, with little fanfare, President Trump took control of the event and renamed it. While campaigning, he had promised to work with all 50 state governors to put on his own \u201cGreat American State Fair\u201d at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Last July, he traveled to Iowa to announce a change of plans: \u201ca giant patriotic festival next summer on the National Mall featuring exhibits from all 50 states.\u201d The announcement got little attention, because at the same event, Trump said this about congressional Democrats: \u201cI hate them.\u201d The Smithsonian quietly recast the Festival of Festivals as a series of events around the country.<\/p>\n

So began Trump\u2019s multipronged takeover of the historic celebrations, which will culminate on July 4\u2014the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\u2014amid growing disarray and conflict, according to documents I obtained and interviews with 10 people involved in the planning or oversight of the event, most of whom requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n

They described frayed trust and growing conflict that has become so acrimonious that the Department of Interior is refusing to honor a December agreement with America250, a bipartisan group authorized by Congress in 2016 to plan the nation\u2019s festivities. A memorandum of agreement I obtained shows that the department pledged to transfer $50 million in congressional appropriations by February 1, but only $25 million has been delivered so far. \u201cSpending taxpayer money on frivolous, poorly attended events and D.C. consultants who are trying to get rich off America\u2019s 250th is the exact opposite of what was intended,\u201d the Department of Interior press office told me yesterday in an unsigned statement, when I asked why the America250 money had not been transferred. \u201cThis administration will not light taxpayer money on fire. Full stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic and Republican lawmakers have expressed frustration at the breakdown, with one House committee opening its own investigations into the Trump administration\u2019s handling of taxpayer funding for America\u2019s birthday party. \u201cThis is straight out of It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em>, when Henry Potter steals George Bailey\u2019s money and tries to drive him to the brink,\u201d one commissioner for America250 told me. \u201cWith less than a month away from this historic milestone, there is just no room for politics, and we remain hopeful that cooler heads will prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s team is similarly frustrated. The White House created its own rival group, Freedom 250, late last year to improve on the existing plans. Trump aides now accuse the bipartisan group of resisting the rightful role of the commander in chief to put his own mark on the celebrations. \u201cAmerica250 can\u2019t get over the fact that Trump won,\u201d Trump\u2019s former co\u2013campaign manager Chris LaCivita, who worked as a top contractor for America250 last year before switching to Freedom 250, told me. \u201cThey want to apologize for America\u2019s 250th. We don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

The discord broke into public view late last month when seven music acts bowed out of the Great American State Fair after they learned that Freedom 250, not the bipartisan planners, were organizing it. Trump angrily canceled the live-music series and pledged to make the event more explicitly political. Days later, he announced a June 24 rally on the National Mall to launch the state fair, an event he is now billing as a \u201cRally to end all Rallies,\u201d featuring him as the centerpiece and no \u201csingers with no talent.\u201d He invited U.S. military bands; the country singer Lee Greenwood, whose \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d was Trump\u2019s campaign walk-out song; and the opera tenor Christopher Macchio, who sang at Trump\u2019s 2025 inauguration.<\/p>\n

Some supporters of America250, which is backed by a bipartisan caucus of 421 federal lawmakers, view this event as further proof that Trump always planned to remake the national celebration in his image. They point to a draft Freedom 250 document, which details how organizers could encourage Americans to host their own events\u2014town halls or rallies, say, \u201caround a core America First issue\u201d such as parental rights, free speech, and election integrity. Cathy Gillespie, a lifelong Republican who has been an America250 commissioner for eight years, told me in a statement that her group\u2019s mission is to \u201chonor and celebrate\u201d the anniversary \u201cin a way that engages and inspires all Americans, regardless of political affiliation.\u201d She added, \u201cThere is nothing anywhere that validates a claim it has failed in this mission, let alone apologize for our 250th Anniversary.\u201d<\/p>\n

But with weeks to go, relations between the two sides could deteriorate further, potentially marring a national event that both say should be unifying. The White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told me in a statement that the celebrations \u201cshouldn\u2019t be ruined by people or organizations more concerned with partisanship and apologizing for America than celebrating the greatest nation in history.\u201d Late last month, America250\u2019s leadership sent a letter to Trump inviting him to participate in the events, including a ball drop at midnight on July 3 in Times Square, a concert in Los Angeles, and the burying of a time capsule in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Discussions have followed, but the president has not yet committed to attending. Kellyanne Conway, another Republican America250 commissioner who has spoken with Trump about the celebrations, has been pushing to lower temperatures. \u201cAmerica\u2019s birthday party will be epic,\u201d she told me in a statement. \u201cI have witnessed more collaboration than confrontation, and hope all can operate toward the same goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first, the two teams<\/span> worked as one. Trump had publicly shared his vision for the 250th celebration in a May 2023 campaign video. Festivities would last an entire year, starting in 2025 on Memorial Day, he explained, and would include a Great American State Fair, a high-school athletic competition called the Patriot Games, a National Garden of American Heroes with sculptures, and a prayer event. None of those ideas appeared on the congressional planners\u2019 agenda, but the two teams agreed that there was still time to add more events.<\/p>\n

The America250 chair, Rosie Rios, who had served as the U.S. treasurer during the Barack Obama presidency, sent a November 2024 memo to Trump asking him to issue an executive order to mobilize federal resources for the celebrations, according to an annual report released in January. She also suggested that Trump invite King Charles III for a visit, to replicate Queen Elizabeth\u2019s 1976 visit to mark the bicentennial. He took her up on both suggestions.<\/p>\n

Rios brought on a number of Trump\u2019s top advisers, including LaCivita, the fundraiser Meredith O\u2019Rourke, and Justin Caporale, the producer of Trump\u2019s political events. The White House then appointed Ariel Abergel\u2014a former producer at Fox News who had worked for First Lady Melania Trump\u2014as America250\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n

When Trump wanted to stage a military parade in Washington, D.C., on his birthday last June to commemorate the Army\u2019s 250th anniversary, America250 allowed the president\u2019s team to raise money for that and for a series of other Trump-focused events through their nonprofit operation. The parade\u2014along with Trump\u2019s speech in Iowa, his remarks at the 2025 West Point graduation, and a speech at Fort Bragg\u2014were paid for with more than $30 million that the Trump team routed through the group, according to the America250 annual report. Sponsorships came from companies seeking Trump\u2019s favor, such as Palantir, Amazon, Oracle, and Coinbase, and the group reported an $849,000 \u201cfundraising fee and commission\u201d for these programs, according to America250 documents. Some of the money raised went to other programs, including a plan for mobile museum exhibits.<\/p>\n

But relations became strained last July after Trump declared his hatred of the Democrats at the Iowa rally, as the crowd waved America250<\/span> signs. Around the same time, Abergel suggested to four commissioners that they resign, angering some in the organization and raising concern on Capitol Hill. He pushed internally for America250 to focus more on televised events, not the less visible programming at the core of the effort. In September, he used the group\u2019s official Instagram account to post \u201cGod bless Charlie Kirk\u201d after the conservative activist\u2019s assassination. Abergel was pushed out of the organization.<\/p>\n

Tensions also emerged over money. America250 had initially planned to request $100 million in onetime funding from the Republican-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act in 2025, according to an account given by America250 organizers to investigators of the House Natural Resources Committee, which I obtained. But at LaCivita\u2019s recommendation, America250 changed the ask to $150 million, with the understanding that $100 million would finance America250 programming and the remaining $50 million would be spent by the White House for its own 250th events, they told the investigators. Congress assigned the Interior Department to distribute the funds.<\/p>\n

After the bill passed, leaders of America250\u2014which then employed LaCivita, Caporale, and O\u2019Rourke\u2014met with the White House staff, including Vince Haley, the director of the domestic-policy council. Caporale drafted a budget for the coming 18 months, which I obtained, that projected about $130 million in spending on America250 projects, a number that presumed $100 million in federal funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill and $30 million in other appropriations, according to the America250 response to House investigators. Under the plan, America250 expected O\u2019Rourke to raise $85 million in private funds that would pay mostly for the programming championed by Trump, including the Great American State Fair, the Navy and Marine celebrations that fall, and the Patriot Games.<\/p>\n

The agreement fell apart, as commissioners for America250 pushed for distance from the events that Trump\u2019s team was planning, and the president\u2019s advisers began raising questions about America250 spending. In November, with the support of America250, Trump\u2019s advisers set up Freedom 250 as a LLC inside the nonpartisan National Park Foundation and began raising money for celebrations in the Washington area. America250 agreed to focus elsewhere in the country. The original talking points for the group described Freedom 250 as \u201ccomplementary and reinforcing\u201d with America250, designed to \u201cunite Americans across political, geographic, and demographic lines.\u201d But instead, it has become a rival effort, taking an increasing share of federal funding, scooping up donations, and assuming responsibility for long-planned events while sometimes placing Trump at the center of the celebrations.<\/p>\n

Corporate-sponsorship packages for Freedom 250 offered top donors access to a \u201cthank you reception hosted by President Donald J. Trump,\u201d along with VIP access and speaking opportunities for events. Donors who give more than $2.5 million have been promised a \u201cdedicated\u201d press release announcing their support and a \u201chistoric\u201d photo opportunity with Trump. A list of donors has not been disclosed, but the defense contractor Northrop Grumman and the manufacturer John Deere, which are also America250 donors, were announced in Freedom 250 press releases as \u201cpartners.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s campaign advisers who\u2019d initially worked for America250 left and became major vendors for Freedom 250. Caporale\u2019s firm, Event Strategies Inc., which organized the Army parade for Trump last summer, began producing Trump\u2019s 250th program. Trump\u2019s campaign-merchandise vendor, a Louisiana-based firm called Ace Specialties, began operating the Freedom 250 online storefront, which offered similar merchandise as the America250 store.<\/p>\n

The dueling celebrations of the nation were often at odds. On New Year\u2019s Eve, Freedom 250 spent about $3 million to broadcast a light show on the Washington Monument, an idea that America250 had originally developed. America250 spent about $4 million for a televised New Year\u2019s promotion in Times Square of its America Gives volunteer initiative. America250 partnered with the NFL during this year\u2019s Super Bowl; Freedom 250 bought ad time around the event to promote its own brand. While America250 promoted its America\u2019s Field Trip program, a patriotic-essay-writing contest that allowed schoolkids to win trips to historic landmarks, Freedom 250 launched the American Heroes Student Art Contest, with a trip to the Great American State Fair as the prize.<\/p>\n

America250 adopted \u201c350 for 250\u201d as its motto around the time Trump retook office, a reference to the congressional mandate to include all 350 million Americans in the semiquincentennial celebration. Trump\u2019s advisers began using a variation of the slogan\u2014\u201c250 for 250\u201d\u2014to promote the construction of a 250-foot-tall memorial arch by Arlington National Cemetery. The planned arch, which is yet to begin construction and is opposed by Democrats, has been included in promotional images for the Great American State Fair.<\/p>\n

The nastiest fights<\/span> have arisen over money. Trump-administration officials signaled late last year that America250\u2019s programming would not receive $100 million from the One Big Beautiful Bill. Instead, the National Park Service, which was handling the funds for the Interior Department, signed a memorandum of agreement with America250 in December to transfer $50 million to the group by February 1. The full amount never arrived.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought we\u2019d taken care of that in last year\u2019s budget\u2014$150 million for America250, promised $50 million; they only received $25 so far,\u201d Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a Republican who is a member of the America250 commission, said at an April hearing with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. \u201cI am still concerned about this additional $25 million that was to be directed to America250.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working closely with the White House on that, and so we\u2019ll get back to you,\u201d Burgum responded. The Interior press office suggested yesterday that the money would not be coming anytime soon. \u201cThe Trump administration has been clear since day one that we will be good stewards of taxpayer money,\u201d it told me in a statement. \u201cThe Memorandum of Understanding signed with all 250th related entities made that clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump team now says that it became concerned about the cost of America250\u2019s programming. It inquired about the decision to provide Rios with an apartment in Washington. \u201cThere are serious concerns about America250\u2019s accountability,\u201d one person in Trump\u2019s orbit who is familiar with the discussions told me. \u201cSince 2016, the organization has received over $120 million in public and private funding per their own documents. Now they claim a budget deficit, and they need another $130 million? What about their bloated budget and lame programming is worth $250 million?\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s team was particularly concerned about America\u2019s Field Trip, an essay-writing contest that has provided trips for 275 students and their chaperones to historic locales across the country, along with $500 cash awards for an equal number of runners-up. The budget for the program is not fixed, but one projection I viewed put it at $10.4 million over eight years, or about $38,000 per field-trip winner. \u201cWhatever way you cut the math, it doesn\u2019t work,\u201d the person in Trump\u2019s orbit said.<\/p>\n

Representatives of America250 rejected the suggestion that money had been mishandled, and they pointed out that the goal of the field-trip project was to engage students across the country, not just to award prizes. More than 20,000 students have submitted patriotic essays as part of the program. The group has re-budgeted its programming to account for the decreased allocations from the One Big Beautiful Bill, though it continues to seek the second $25 million promised in the Interior agreement. \u201cAny claim that America250 has misused taxpayer resources or operated as a partisan organization is completely unfounded and wrong,\u201d Gillespie said. The Washington apartment used by Rios was rented for use by any America250 commissioner, who all work as volunteers, after it was determined that the arrangement would be less expensive than renting hotel rooms, an America250 official told me.<\/p>\n

From December to April, the Interior Department transferred $68 million to the National Park Foundation, which houses Freedom 250, for semiquincentennial programming, according to federal records. The White House also asked the department to transfer other funds to the Defense Department to pay for the Navy and Marine 250th celebrations last fall, according to the person in Trump\u2019s orbit familiar with the discussions.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the Trump administration has given Washington a glam-up ahead of the summer\u2019s festivities, upsetting some Democrats. Federal payment records show that since the start of November, the Interior Department has transferred about $98 million from the National Park Service\u2019s entry-fee program to beautification efforts around D.C., including the retrofit of the Reflecting Pool and multiple nearby fountains and monuments.<\/p>\n

All of this spending<\/span> by Trump\u2019s team is now the subject of a Democratic investigation in the House, an inquiry that could expand if the party wins control of Congress in the November elections. \u201cWe\u2019ve found a lot in our investigations and will keep digging,\u201d Representative Jared Huffman of California, the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, told me in a statement, \u201cbut it seems pretty clear this con man is at it again and has co-opted America\u2019s birthday to rake in foreign donations, siphon taxpayer dollars from the legitimate America 250 into this shadowy LLC, and use it all to celebrate himself instead of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans on the same committee, meanwhile, have attacked America250 while praising Freedom 250. \u201cThe America250 organization had ten years to prepare for this historic milestone, yet they have been accused of mismanaging taxpayer dollars,\u201d Representative Addison McDowell of North Carolina told me in a statement. \u201cFreedom 250 is celebrating our country in the patriotic way it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that represents federal workers, has also filed a lawsuit to force Interior to turn over more documents detailing spending on Freedom 250 and separate spending by the National Park Service to prepare Washington-area monuments for the summer events. \u201cThis really doesn\u2019t feel like a bipartisan celebration that is inclusive of all Americans,\u201d PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse told me. \u201cThis feels like a political prop show for the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the Department of Interior, employees have been instructed to treat Freedom 250 as a trusted partner. In an April 30 internal National Park Service email that I reviewed, the agency urged its staff to wear Freedom 250 commemorative pins on their uniform lapels. Those who do not wear uniforms were told to wear the pin with business attire \u201cas a mark of Esprit de Corps.\u201d Park Service volunteers were also encouraged to wear the pin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis pin serves as a symbol of our shared history and commitment to the values of service and liberty that have defined this nation for two and a half centuries,\u201d the email to staff reads. The Park Service said in the email that the pins, which retail individually for $8 on the Freedom 250 website, could be ordered in batches of \u201c100 or more\u201d from Trump\u2019s campaign vendor in Louisiana. \u201cAny insinuation that employees were tasked with buying Freedom 250 pins is categorically false,\u201d the Interior press office told me in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Smithsonian, meanwhile, is moving ahead with its 250th celebrations, far from the controversy in Washington. The Festival of Festivals will now take place in 27 states and two territories, according to the Smithsonian, integrating the federal museum programming into far-flung events that were already planned. While Trump gathers Americans for his rally and fair, the Smithsonian will make appearances at Farm Aid, a Virginia Beach concert organized by the musicians Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and Dave Matthews that is scheduled for September, and at Burning Man, an annual arts bacchanal in the Nevada desert. The Burning Man plan, according to Smithsonian officials, is to set up a \u201cmobile recording station\u201d where revelers can give five-to-10-minute oral-history interviews \u201con culture, identity, and democracy\u201d for the 250th.<\/p>\n

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