This joint resolution, introduced November 19, 2025 by Senators Capito, Padilla, Murkowski, and Shaheen, asks the Secretary of the Interior to allow unique, one-time public displays on the National Mall and on the Washington Monument. The requested displays would include semiquincentennial materials and other artifacts, digital content, film footage, and associated audio and imagery. The displays would be shown in and around the Mall, including projections onto the surface of the Washington Monument, for five nights between December 31, 2025 and January 5, 2026. The resolution also requests that an enrolled copy be sent to the Secretary of the Interior and the Chair of the United States Semiquincentennial Commission. The resolution was read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; its status is in progress.
If the resolution is adopted and the Secretary of the Interior agrees, special displays and projected images could appear on the National Mall and Washington Monument for the specified five nights. These displays could include artifacts and multimedia about the United States’ 250th anniversary. This resolution asks the Secretary to authorize the displays; it does not itself provide funding or guarantee the displays will happen.
No publicly available information on expected costs or funding is included in the text of this resolution.
The resolution’s text says the displays would help begin public celebrations of the United States’ 250th anniversary, bring people together, and showcase semiquincentennial materials. It cites past events (for example, a 2019 Apollo 11 commemoration) and notes that Washington, DC and the Washington Monument are fitting locations for national commemorations.
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