It may feel that years have passed, but in reality the news that President Trump has decided to accept a “free” Boeing 747 of the Qatar nation is only a few months old. It is no secret that in order to use the aircraft as the Air Force One, it will require expensive and in -depth repair. However, how many taxpayers actually spend on the “free” Trump aircraft? Well, this is classified, but it also sounds like early estimates of nearly a billion dollars may have actually been quite accurate, the New York Times reports.
Obviously, the Pentagon mysteriously transferred $ 934 million from his budget for the modernization of nuclear missiles in an “unnamed classified project” that “congresses of the budget of the congress” believe “almost certainly involves the renovation of the” estimated free plane of Trump. We cannot know all the money for sure. Dollars on the aircraft renovation, but according to Times, Air Force staff mentioned earlier, using money that is already allocated for nuclear modernization to turn the Qatari jet into a useful Air Force One.
It is also important to remember that the current plan is not the US government to keep the aircraft. Instead, he will be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library (which, in particular, does not exist) when Trump leaves office. So while working on the plane will start soon, it will probably take at least one year, if not two, to prepare it for duty. This leaves very little time for Trump to use it as One Air Force. In the end, he is not eligible for a constitutional state to serve another term as president, at least if you go based on what the words in the constitution say.
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Free for Trump, at least
Trump with Qatar Emir – Earn McNamee/Getty Images
Where He was Was Asked About the Ethics of the Who Plane Thing Back in May, Trump Said, “I WOULD NEVER BE ONE TO TURN DOWN THAT OF OFFER. Expensive Airplane. ‘”Which is Great, Except for the Part Where the American Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill for a Planel Government Won’s Even get to Keep Once Trump Leepe Leeep Leeep Leaves As times say:
It is free in the sense that the used car, delivered by a neighbor who wants to remove it from his alley, is free. In this case, the many modifications will be solidified communications, antimistile systems and engines for the president to be quickly safety, as one of the older Air Force made on September 11, 2001, when al -Qaeda attacked the United States. And there is a delicate matter from the release of the jet of all hidden electronic listening devices that US officials suspect can be built into the walls.
Then, of course, it must be filled with luxury – and a gold lining – with which the 47th president surrounds, whether in the oval office or in the air. The upper deck of JET has a salon and a communication center, while the main bedroom can be turned into a flying sick bay in emergency medical attention.
After spending all this money on repairing the Qatari aircraft so that Trump can use as Air Force 1 for maybe a year or two, the Federal Government will still have to pay for the two aircraft of the Air Force, which are already on order. You know, since Trump’s plan is to take the Qatari plane with you when he leaves his post. So every penny spent on this aircraft is an additional price for taxpayers to delight Trump.
Officially still save money … somehow
The Qatari Boeing 747 – Leonard Zhukovski/Shutterstock
Last month, Air Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told Congress not to worry about the price of the “free” jet. “I think it has been thrown in the order of $ 1 billion, but many of the costs related to those we would have survived anyway,” Main told lawmakers. “We’ll just try them early. So it won’t be anywhere close to that. We believe that the actual modernization of this aircraft is probably less than $ 400 million.”
This does not follow exactly, given that we, again, still have to pay for the other two air forces that are already on order, and the federal government will not retain the Qatar jet after Trump leaves office. But Times also cites “Air Force engineers and experts who have gone through such projects” and still do not buy this budget assessment. And when it was pressed for more details last week, the Air Force said it could not discuss the cost of the project because it was classified. As the times However, he points out that “the Air Force is ready to discuss the cost of building a new generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles, but not the cost of renovating the President’s aircraft.” Curious.
As Senator Jeanne Shahin, a Democrat who sits in the Armed Services Committee, told The Times., “The more we learn about this transaction, the more viable it becomes. The consequences of security from the acceptance of a private aircraft from a foreign country as the first Air Force and the resulting ethical fears of this size is already significant.” Beyond that, however, Shahin said they were worried that “this administration diverts funds from the budget for the modernization of the nuclear environment to finance expensive repairs in this Plain” and that “we are weakening our reliability to finance a vanity project for President Trump.”
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