Most Americans Don’t Want Their Tax Dollars Spent On Trump’s Military Parade
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Trump’s military parade on June 14, which coincides with his birthday, is set to cost taxpayers more than $45 million.
As many Americans struggle to make ends meet — including military families and veterans who have found themselves fired thanks to this year’s massive cuts to the federal government — a new poll shows that 2 in 3 adults are opposed to spending taxpayer dollars on Saturday’s military birthday soiree for President Donald Trump.
According to a survey conducted between May and June by the NBC News Decision Desk, 64% of American adults said they were opposed to the use of government funds for the military parade that Trump has ordered to roll through Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
A celebration to ring in the Army’s 250th anniversary had been in the works since 2023, but it wasn’t until after Trump officially returned to the White House that a parade down Constitution Avenue — replete with a presidential viewing stand en route and a ceremony near the White House where parachuting troops will deliver him a flag — was added to the program.
According to the poll, 88% of Democrats and 72% of independents oppose using government funds for the parade. Among Republicans, 65% supported using government funds for the event.
Trump’s most diehard supporters in the “Make America Great Again” movement overwhelmingly approved of using taxpayer dollars, but there was some wiggle room, with the approval rating sitting at 75%.
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