When President Trump came down the escalator in 2015, the pitch wasn’t complicated. Government, he argued, had gotten very good at talking, studying, and spending but not very good at producing. His answer was to run it like a business. Build things. Deliver results. Let people see what they’re paying for.

You don’t have to agree with every part of that argument to understand why it resonated. You also don’t have to look very far to see why it still does.

Take something as straightforward as America’s 250th birthday, because if you try to answer a simple question, how is the country going to celebrate, you end up with a surprisingly thin answer for something that has been in the works this long.

America250 is the congressionally authorized body tasked with planning the nation’s 250th anniversary, and it has had every advantage to get it right. It’s had a decade to prepare and more than enough funding to do it.

According to public records, the organization has received $75 million in public funding — including $50 million in........

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