To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    3 days ago

    Officially, and conveniently, the price tag has been classified. But even by Washington standards, where “black budgets” are often used as an excuse to avoid revealing the cost of outdated spy satellites and lavish end-of-year parties, the techniques being used to hide the cost of Mr. Trump’s pet project are inventive. Which may explain why no one wants to discuss a mysterious, $934 million transfer of funds from one of the Pentagon’s most over-budget, out-of-control projects — the modernization of America’s aging, ground-based nuclear missiles.

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      2 days ago

      Probably the easy route of thought was “the plane will hold the Nuclear codes/football, therefore it falls under the Nuclear arsenal renewal budget”

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        By the time it is ready it won’t anymore, and the government will have more mics on that plane than Qatar did before they gave it to him.