WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Biden’s plans for a Fourth of July celebration have angered South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who again took to her Twitter feed on having a fireworks display at Mount Rushmore.
President Joe Biden plans to host first responders, essential workers and military service members and their families on the South Lawn for a cookout and to watch the fireworks over the National Mall on Independence Day. Biden is proclaiming “a summer of freedom” to celebrate Americans resuming their pre-pandemic lives.
South Dakota’s governor calls the president “hypocritical” in a tweet on her personal Twitter account about the celebration in the nation’s capital.
She’s been fighting to get fireworks back at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Noem filed a lawsuit after the National Park Service rejected the state request for July 4th fireworks at the national monument.
On June 2, a federal judge ruled against the lawsuit.
Several factors separate having fireworks at Mount Rushmore and Washington, D.C., but Noem remains steadfast in her fight, and tweeted today “Given this hypocrisy, we will be resubmitting our request to hold our celebration at Mount Rushmore on July 3rd.”
However, even if the National Park Service reversed its decision to deny the state a permit for fireworks, the state would struggle to pull the event together just weeks before Independence Day.
