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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  • Dragomus@lemmy.world
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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”

    • DancingBear@midwest.social
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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.