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The report said that local officials are only now hearing of plans for the parade and that no formal request has been made for their assistance.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser estimated the parade plans are in their “early stages,” adding that either the Department of Homeland Security or White House reached out to the district’s special events task force, reported
Fox News.
Arlington County Board Chair Takis Karantonis told the
City Paper that the White House had given the county a “heads up” about the parade on Friday, with only 10 weeks until the event. The White House told Fox that “no military parade has been scheduled” for Trump’s birthday, but stopped short of saying outright there would not be one.
He said “the parade’s scope ” was “unclear” and that no firm details were disclosed.
Trump said in his first term that he would like to see tanks as part of a
parade on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bowser said she did not want to see military tanks on the streets of Washington unless it received millions in extra funding.
“Military tanks on our streets would not be good,” Bowser said. “If military tanks were used, they should be accompanied with many millions of dollars to repair the roads.”
Other unnamed officials told the paper that a big military parade will require a huge amount of coordination between the six branches of the armed forces, along with several federal agencies and regional officials."
The Marines and Army should send equipment that was damaged in Ukraine to participate.