Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes
Creates National Garden and Directs Agencies to Rebuild Monuments
What it does
Agencies must create and support a Task Force to plan a National Garden and prioritize commissioning lifelike statues of historically significant Americans.
Real-world impact
- Plans for a National Garden to open for public access before July 4, 2026.
- Federal agencies instructed to prioritize funding and commissioning of lifelike statues.
- The agency that manages federal buildings will revise art rules toward historical figures.
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Summary
This order creates an Interagency Task Force led by the Secretary of the Interior to plan and build a National Garden of American Heroes, a statuary park of lifelike statues. The Task Force must report options within 60 days and aim to open the park before July 4, 2026, and agencies are told to prioritize commissioning and displaying statues that meet the order's criteria.
It directs the agency that manages federal buildings to change art rules, asks the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to prioritize education funding, and makes protections subject to law and available funding.
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