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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Republican proposes making Trump’s birthday a public holiday

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Representative Claudia Tenney speaks during a news conference outside the US Capitol on 1 February 2023. Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images

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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