Republican proposes making Trump’s birthday a public holiday
by Ramon Antonio Vargas from US news | The Guardian on (#6VBXP)
Claudia Tenney's bill combining Flag Day with Trump's birthday could face steep odds of success in Congress
A Republican congresswoman has proposed making Donald Trump's birthday a public holiday, in an effort probably doomed to failure in Congress but obviously intended to curry favor with the president.
Claudia Tenney, a representative from New York's Finger Lakes region, introduced legislation on Friday aiming to combine the US annual commemoration of Flag Day with a new observance of Trump's birthday on 14 June, arguing that the president is the most consequential ... in modern American history".
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