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EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump will signal an government order Wednesday establishing a White Home activity pressure targeted on coordinating the plans and actions surrounding the celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Fox Information Digital has realized.
The president’s order will arrange a “grand celebration of the semiquincentennial of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence.”
The 250th anniversary of America’s founding is July 4, 2026.
Donald Trump is sworn in because the forty seventh president of america by Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible on Jan. 20, 2025. (Morry Gash/AP Photograph/Pool)
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The duty pressure, which shall be named “Activity Pressure 250,” will “coordinate the plans and actions of federal businesses for a rare celebration of the 250thh Anniversary of American Independence.”
Activity Pressure 250 will construct upon the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration half a century in the past. The White Home instructed Fox Information Digital that the celebration “emphasised nationwide renewal of our founding beliefs after a interval of nationwide unrest and division.”
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The order, which Trump is about to signal Wednesday, may even reinstate government orders from his first administration that may set up the Nationwide Backyard of American Heroes, a statuary park memorializing 250 traditionally vital People, and fee artists for the primary 100 statues.
President Donald Trump and first girl Melania Trump are proven throughout a Salute to America occasion on the South Garden of the White Home on July 4, 2020. (AP Photograph/Patrick Semansky)
Fox Information Digital has realized that the Nationwide Backyard of American Heroes will honor “American heroism” after dozens of monuments to People, together with presidents and founding fathers, had been toppled or destroyed and by no means restored.
The order additionally reinstates an order to guard American monuments, memorials and statues from destruction or vandalism.
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The White Home stated America’s 250th anniversary will “afford a possibility to unite the American folks round their shared historical past and customary future as a nation.”
President-elect Donald Trump, Melania Trump and household watch fireworks at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership, Washington D.C., on Jan. 18, 2025, in Sterling, Va. (Alex Brandon/Pool through REUTERS)
The order, in keeping with White Home officers, additionally continues Trump’s “longstanding dedication to honor America’s 250th anniversary and have a good time American historical past.”
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Throughout Trump’s first tackle to a joint session of Congress in February 2017, he cited the upcoming semiquincentennial and famous that “in 9 years america will have a good time the 250th anniversary of our founding, 250 years for the reason that day we declared our Independence.”
The chief orders that Wednesday’s order reinstates had been signed in 2020 and 2021 and had been created to guard American monuments throughout unrest and violence in cities throughout protests and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox Information Digital, Fox Information Channel and FOX Enterprise.
