White House budget director predicts Trump's military parade will cost up to $30 million

Mick Mulvaney.
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Apparently, a military parade through the nation's capital is not cheap.

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney predicted Wednesday that the cost of parading America's colors and munitions through Washington, D.C. — as President Trump apparently desires — could be as low as $10 million and as high as $30 million. The price tag hinges on the "scope" of the parade, Mulvaney told the House Budget Committee.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.