The Kennedy heir closed his remarks with a quote from the Broadway musical ‘Hamilton’ that he attributed to ‘our Founding Father’
Jack Schlossberg, the Kennedy scion now running in the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th Congressional District, listed his membership on the America250 Commission on his recent financial disclosures. Video from August 2025 shows Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) boasting about naming the heir with millions of dollars in trust funds to the body to “push back” at President Donald Trump. Schlossberg, in turn, quoted the Broadway musical Hamilton.
“I am so proud to appoint Jack to the America250 Commission, which will be in charge of how we celebrate our great 250th birthday,” Schumer said. “Why am I putting Jack there? We know that Donald Trump will try to aggrandize the whole thing and make it part of him and his ego. There’s no better person to push back on that than you, Jack.”
Schlossberg agreed with Schumer’s assessment.
“Right now, our civil rights are under attack,” he said. “Equal justice is under attack. Science, scientific progress, is under attack, and I want to make sure that there we celebrate our country for all of its colors, and there is no more important task than celebrating our history for the sake of our future.”
Schumer told the audience that Schlossberg will fight “for the things we believe in, and that America has always believed in, and not the kind of crap that Donald Trump is throwing at every American every day.”
Schlossberg closed out the event with a quote from the Broadway musical Hamilton that he attributed to “our Founding Father.”
“To quote our Founding Father, I am young, scrappy, and hungry, and I’m not throwing away this shot,” he said.
The America250 Commission, a bipartisan group created by Congress in 2016, is charged with staging events related to the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding and coordinating the “largest and most inclusive anniversary observance in our nation’s history.” Other commission members include Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W. Va.), Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska), Alex Padilla (D., Calif.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.), as well as historian Wilfred McClay and political scientist Lucas Morel, among others.
Schlossberg listed his work with the America250 Commission as one of many roles for which he did not earn a salary. He also named his position as a member of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award committee and his work as a political correspondent for Vogue—even though the magazine confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that Schlossberg had not been on staff since 2024.
The disclosures also showed four trust funds worth between $4.1 million and $11.7 million—part of a larger portfolio of cash and investments worth up to $31.9 million.
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