It is possible that a year has passed, but in reality, President Trump decided to accept the “free” Boeing 747 from Qatar’s nation is only a couple of months. It is no secret that using an airplane like Air Force One will require expensive and careful renovation. How much taxpayers actually spend on Trump’s “free” plane? Well, it’s classified, but almost a billion dollars seem to be quite accurate, reports The New York Times.
Apparently, the Pentagon mysteriously handed over $ 934 million. USD from its nuclear rocket modernization budget to a “unnamed classified project”, which believes the “Congress Budget” that almost certainly includes renovation of a “short supposedly free plane”. We cannot know exactly that money will be used on Trump’s plane, and even if it is, it may not use all $ 934 million.
It is also important to remember that the current plan is not for the US government to maintain an airplane. It will allegedly be transferred to the Trump’s President’s Library (which, above all, still do not exist) when the short leaves his duties. Thus, while it is reported that the airplane is reported to begin soon, it will probably take at least a year, if not for two to get ready for duties. This leaves very little time to use it to use it as Air Force One. After all, it is constitutionally unfit for serving the next term of the President, at least if you go on the basis of what the words of the Constitution say.
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At least for Trump
Trump with Qatar Emir – Win McNamee/Getty Images
When he asked him about the ethics of the entire plane of the plane, Trump said, “I will never be alone to reject such an offer. I mean that I can be a stupid person and say,” No, we don’t want a free, very expensive plane. “
It is free in the sense that a car used by a neighbor who wants to remove it from his driveway is free. In this case, many modifications will have hardened relationships, the ability of the antimissSo system and the engine to quickly raise the president to security, as one of the older Air Force made a 2001 Air Force. September 11, when the Al Qaeda attacked the US. And there is a subtle thing to get rid of any hidden electronic listening devices that US officials suspect can be inserted into the walls.
Then, of course, it must be filled with a luxury and gold finish with which the 47th president surrounds himself, whether it is in the oval cabinet or in the air. The upper jet deck has a lounge and communication center, and the main bedroom can be turned into a flying disease in the medical situation.
After spending all that money on Qatar’s jet plane to use Trump as an Air Force for one year or two, the Federal Government will still have to pay for two already neat Air Force one plane. You know, since Trump’s plan is to take a Qatar’s jet plane with you when he leaves office. So every penny missed on this plane is an additional cost for taxpayers to make the short happy.
Officially we still save money … Somehow
Qatari Boeing 747 – Leonard Zhukovsky/Shutterstock
Last month, the Air Force Secretary Troy Meunk told Congress not to worry about the “free” Qatar’s jet plane costs. “I think there was an order of about $ 1 billion, but a lot of those costs related to the costs we would still have experienced,” Meun told legislators. “We will just experience them early. So there would be no one near it. We think the real modification of that aircraft is probably less than $ 400 million.”
This does not accurately follow, given that we have to pay again for the other two already orders, and the federal government will not maintain the Qatar’s jet aircraft after the Trump leaves his duties. However, The Times also quotes “Engineer and Air Force experts who have survived similar projects” and still do not buy this budget estimates. And by pressing more information last week, the Air Force said they could not discuss the project price because it was classified. As the times However, he emphasizes that “the Air Force wants to discuss the cost of developing the intercontinental ballistic missiles, but not the renewal of the presidential aircraft.” Interesting.
As Senator Jeanne Shaheen told The Times, a Democrat sitting on the Armed Services CommitteeIs it “The more we learn about this agreement, the more worrying. The safety consequences accept a private plane from a foreign nation as Air Force One, and the resulting ethical problems created by a gift of this size were already significant.” We weaken our reliability to finance the project of President Trump’s vanity. ”
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