On Juneteenth, Donald Trump took to Truth Social with a classic “old man yells at cloud” complaint: Americans get too much time off work.

President Donald Trump said the country is losing money due to the number of federal holidays on Thursday, which marks Juneteenth, the newest addition to the U.S. holiday calendar. Does Trump want to ...

On June 19, 2025, the fifth consecutive year of Juneteenth being recognized as a federal holiday in the United States is celebrated. Juneteenth, also known as ...

President Donald Trump opined on Truth Social that there are "too many non-working holidays in America," and they are harming the nation's economy.

A 2022 study by two economists found that when a federal holiday falls on a weekend and isn’t rescheduled for a weekday, the nation’s total output, or gross domestic product, increases by 0.08 ...

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Trump promised to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, according to Reuters. He also recognized it via official White House statements.

One county in New York state still doesn’t observe Juneteenth, despite it being a federal holiday since 2021 and a state holiday since 2020. WABC reports Nassau County government offices were ...

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.

Federal offices, banks and financial markets were closed. As of last year, 30 states also recognized it as a holiday, according to the Congressional Research Service. During the 2020 presidential ...

President Donald Trump opined on Truth Social that there are "too many non-working holidays in America," and they are harming the nation's economy.

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 ...

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 ...