Is America's 250th birthday celebration too partisan?

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  All right, you may have heard America is celebrating its 250th birthday this year.

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  That sounds like a unifying patriotic occasion, right?

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  Well, like almost everything these days, it has become partisan.

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  Let's get into it.

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  It's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Miles Parks.

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  I cover voting.

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  I'm Danielle Kurtzleben.

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  I cover the White House.

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  And I'm Tamara Keith, senior political correspondent.

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  OK, so it's this July 4th weekend, birthday 250 for the country, Tam.

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  There's a lot of events and celebrations going on.

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  Can you walk us through just kind of everything that we're watching for this weekend?

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  There are a lot of things planned, not just in Washington, D.C., but all over the country.

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  There are going to be massive fireworks in New York City.

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  Also, Taylor Swift is getting married.

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  There is a huge event happening actually tomorrow at Mount Rushmore.

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