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Pentagon grudgingly begins planning for Trump’s military parade: Report

By Naomi Lim

Published June 29, 2018 3:44pm ET

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Pentagon grudgingly begins planning for Trump’s military parade: Report — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, second from left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, second from right, leave the podium with and Air Vice Marshall Gavin Parker, Defence Attache British Embassy, right and French defence attache Brig. Gen. Jean-Pierre Montegu, left, walk from the stage at the conclusion of a news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, April 13, 2018. | (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The Department of Defense said on Friday that planning has gotten underway for a military parade in the nation’s capital, ordered by President Trump after he was invited to a 2017 Bastille Day celebration by French President Emmanuel Macron, but the event is yet to be assigned a budget, according to a report.

A Pentagon official told NBC News the lack of urgency could be attributed to widespread reticence regarding the parade.

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