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Juneteenth will be celebrated on Thursday, June 19, 2025. However, it's unknown if it will be a state holiday this year.
President Trump said there should be fewer holidays because they are hurting the economy. Some Chronicle readers disagreed and said the U.S. should have more.
President Trump hinted at ending federal recognition of Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the U.S. But there are ...
President Donald Trump took to social media Thursday on Juneteenth, a federal holiday, to criticize the number of “non-working holidays” in the United States.
Trump says 'too many non-working holidays' Trump's post on Juneteenth criticized the number of federal holidays, which most federal workers have as paid holidays. There are 12 federal holidays in ...
President Donald Trump criticized the number of US holidays and said they cost the country billions. The post was made on Juneteenth, a federal holiday that Trump previously supported.
Politics Juneteenth goes uncelebrated at White House as Trump complains about ‘too many’ holidays President Donald Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end ...
As Americans celebrated Juneteenth on Thursday, Donald Trump complained that there are too many federal holidays. Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Too many non-working holidays in America. It is ...
Former Democratic President Joe Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021, Reuters reported. ... I made Juneteenth very famous,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal.
For social justice activist Glenn Harris, President Donald Trump’s statement on Juneteenth, arguing there are “too many nonworking holidays in America” costing the country “billions of ...
Having written a column earlier this week about the ambivalent status of the federal Juneteenth holiday in the wake of the second Trump administration’s assault on race-conscious anti ...