The cost to repair Washington, D.C., streets after the upcoming military parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary could cost as much as $16 million, according to U.S. military officials.

The parade is being held to honor the military’s 250th anniversary on June 14, which is also Trump’s birthday.

Plans for Trump's birthday military parade in DC, potentially causing $16 million in street damage, are a concern for infrastructure and budget. The Army plans to use steel plates to protect roads and will cover restoration costs.

The most fundamental job of Congress is to fund the government each year, typically through a bipartisan process that distributes dollars more or less evenly between red states and blue states. But a dustup over a dam construction project in Washington state has thrown a wrench into that process and raised the stakes of a government funding showdown in September.

President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.

President Donald Trump said he was sacking the longtime director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, on Friday, ending the 12-year tenure of the first woman to serve as the gallery’s director.

Autonomy on Judge Picks: President Trump appears to be declaring independence from outside constraints on how he nominates judges, signaling that he is looking for loyalists who will uphold his agenda and denouncing the conservative legal network that helped him remake the federal judiciary in his first term.

During his brief stint in the Trump administration, the billionaire left a big mark on the government with his DOGE agency.

Some advocates worry the nation’s capital could become one of the riskiest places for undocumented immigrants to live as a federal crackdown intensifies.

Trump and Musk hold an Oval Office news conference as the billionaire officially steps away from his government role

One official said that the president is unlikely to delay his initial 90-day pause on some of his highest rates.