Overview

• Scheduled for June 14, the parade will mark the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and President Trump’s birthday with 6,700 troops, 50 helicopters and 28 Abrams tanks.
• The Defense Department has projected direct expenses between $25 million and $45 million, not including security deployments and cleanup operations.
• Mayor Muriel Bowser has voiced concern that local streets could suffer deterioration even as the Army plans to install steel plates and rubber tracks along the route.
• An online petition opposing the parade has attracted more than 23,000 signatures from critics who describe it as a costly vanity spectacle.
• Reports of the parade’s cancellation over a missing birth certificate were debunked by Snopes and traced to a satirical Borowitz Report post.