being handled by the RNC and rewarding campaign donors. 100% of the costs should be reimbursed to the federal gov't by the Trump campaign. I saw yesterday that the re-election campaign has already raised 105M dollars. That should easily cover the cost of this campaign event.

... not to mention all the Hatch Act offenses by federal employees working on this.

Yep, this is totally an in-your-face campaign event daring the Democrats to do something about it. I figure this is the Yellow Bloat's infantile payback for his spanking over the SOTU shutdown fiasco. Self-inflicted, of course.

Great, now along with everything else, the 4th of July has gone to shit under Trump. I'll never look at it the same way again.

I'm sure one of those "strongly-worded letters" will be forthcoming. The only question left is whether that will be before or after any "invitations" or subpoenas to appear before some "powerful committee" are ignored with apparent impunity.

in regards to tRump's little parade?

Apparently, if one party holds the white house and the position of senate majority leader, they can do absolutely anything they want with complete impunity.

I give us about a 30% chance of surviving Trump/Barr/McConnell. We needed a true opposition party the past 45 years, not a party that drifted with the GOP as they made a hard right. We're on a precipice & could topple either way.

about that Trump has done. It has been a daily, hourly, totally continuous shitstorm of indecency, incompetency, and revulsion.

But, this appropriation of the Nation's founding celebration for his own vanity and which shows the world literally how WEAK and FALLEN we are has got to be at the top of the list.

I am sickened.

For sure! In my heart the HATE continues!

Then he has big buck donors already slated to be front and center. This is a fucking CAMPAIGN EVENT,not just a casual 4th of July gathering in DC.

We need that money for OUR national parks. Have those employees ever received back pay for when they were laid off in tRump's government shutdown?

If this is nothing but a campaign speech--and I can't imagine it won't be--some patriotic person needs to trip over the mic cord. Remember the scene in Forrest Gump? Multiply by 10.

This is going to piss some of them off - if they hear about it. National park issues are always a thorn in Cory Gardner's paw cuz his republican supporters in Colorado love their parks & open spaces.