Babies born this year to receive ‘Freedom 250’ Social Security cards, Trump administration says

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Babies born in the U.S. this week through the end of the year will receive a Social Security card bearing the Freedom 250 logo to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary, the Trump administration announced Wednesday.

“The next generation of Americans born during this historic year will receive limited-edition Social Security cards bearing the Freedom 250 logo. Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, we are strengthening Social Security, improving service, and building an SSA to serve Americans today and in the future,” Social Security Commissioner Frank J. Bisignano said in a statement.

The limited-edition Social Security cards will be issued only to infants born from July 2 to Dec. 31. Any replacement or duplicate cards ordered in that time will not be printed with the Freedom 250 logo, the agency said.

The announcement comes as the nation plans to celebrate its semiquincentennial this weekend.

Among the celebrations in Washington are the ongoing Great American State Fair and Saturday’s planned Salute to America fireworks celebration. Those events and others, like the Sail250 celebration, this fall’s Patriot Games and the Rededicate 250 prayer jubilee that took place in May, were planned by Freedom 250, a group the Trump administration created last year to come up with programming commemorating the 250th birthday.

Freedom 250, which the Trump administration established last year, is a separate entity from America250, a group that was created 10 years ago through an act of Congress to plan events to celebrate the semiquincentennial.

Critics of Freedom 250 say it is injecting partisanship into anniversary celebrations that are meant to be free from politics, but the group bills itself as nonpartisan and says all are welcome at its events.

The commemorative Social Security cards are not the first official government documents to bear a symbol of the Trump administration this year.

In April, the State Department announced that Americans could get a passport bearing an image of Trump on the inside cover if they chose to order passports from the Washington Passport Agency.

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