Two Republican lawmakers have renewed their effort to make Easter Monday a federal holiday in the United States, reviving a proposal first introduced last year and presenting it as both a practical reform and a recognition of the country’s Christian inheritance. Rep. Riley Moore of West Virginia and Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri are backing the measure, which would designate the day after Easter Sunday as a federal holiday.
The latest push came on 6 April, when Moore publicly called on Congress to pass what he has named the Easter Monday Act. In a social media thread, he argued that the United States should already be preparing for what he described as the 2,000th anniversary of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ, now seven years away. He presented the proposal as a way of giving Easter greater public recognition in national life.
