'I'm sad': Trump's cuts backfire as red states forced to scrap America 250 festivities
By Daniel Hampton
Published July 1, 2026 8:35 AM ET
Small towns across America wanted to throw a party for the nation's 250th birthday, but a new report found President Donald Trump's cost-cutters took away the money and funneled it toward his own beautification projects in Washington.
NOTUS reported that when DOGE axed federal funding for state humanities councils last year, local libraries and historical societies were forced to abandon plans for the semiquincentennial. The councils, created by Congress around the 1976 bicentennial to fund small-scale history and civics projects, operate in nearly every state and territory.
In Trumbull County, Ohio, even a modest "passport" project encouraging visits to history sites had to be kept small because the historical society could not afford to print more booklets. Councils in West Virginia, Alabama and Washington state were hit too.
https://www.rawstory.com/america-250-2677140348/
Cry me a fucking river......................what did you think a con man sexual predator traitor was going to do.....................JFC..............and now your whining...................didn't your see the masses at the white house grounds during his BS fight matches so that he could pocket the money...............and get taxpayer fighter jets flying over a empty fucked up trump fair on the national mall that was selling soggy corn on the cob to the 1000 fucked up supporters who don't have two rocks between there collective ears ............for starters............