Or who is footing the bill. But fireworks companies speculate that the record-breaking event is a “many multimillion-dollar production.”
Roughly 850,000 shells of fireworks are set to explode over the National Mall just before midnight on the semiquincentennial Saturday. Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA via AP
The Trump administration has not told the public what it costs to put on the “Largest Fireworks Show in History.”
Nor has it said whether American taxpayers will be footing the bill for the plan to break the world record on July Fourth.
Roughly 850,000 shells of fireworks are set to explode over the National Mall just before midnight on the semiquincentennial Saturday. The current record is held by a church in the Philippines, which launched just over 810,000 shells in 2016.
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