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The pressure was on to plan President Donald Trump’s highly touted Great American State Fair, but concerns about high costs and the quick timeline for the event haunted communications between Freedom 250 and state organizers for months, NOTUS’ Jenna Monnin and Sam Fortier report from documents they obtained.
“We have almost no budget, so every penny counts!” a New Hampshire official told Freedom 250 in an email when the state committed to the fair on May 19.
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A $12,000 price tag for furnishings through Freeman, which called itself the “designated provider,” sent New Hampshire organizers spinning over a cost that was “not in the budget” for their state. “Even if it were, we do not have sufficient time to get the proper approvals,” an official said in an email.