America will be celebrating its 250th birthday and everyone's invited: 'Be inspired for our country's future'
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The 250th anniversary of America's founding takes place on July 4, 2026, and plans are well underway. Fox News Digital talked to Rosie Rios, chair of The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission.
The America250 commission is already hard at work planning numerous events for the historic semiquincentennial celebration in consultation and in partnership with a variety of groups and stakeholders across the country. There are stories that "only each individual can tell — one person at a time, one family at a time." Her mother "sent all nine of us off to college. Only in America can something like that happen." Maureen Mackey is managing editor of lifestyle for Fox News Digital.
Congress created The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission in 2016 to plan and orchestrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Rosie Rios, a former Treasurer of the U.S., was named its chair in early 2018.
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