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Originally Posted by BigLouie
Turns out that Trump made this completely bogus claim about the cost of the plane because the CEO of Boeing was critical of Trump
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Really? Is that what Trump told you?
http://fortune.com/2016/12/06/donald...air-force-one/
"In January, the U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing a preliminary contract worth $25.8 million, Reuters reported. And in a statement Tuesday afternoon,
the Air Force said it had budgeted $2.7 billion for research, development, testing and evaluation for the project in 2017."
"It’s not clear exactly what Trump’s $4 billion figure referred to, but a Government Accountability Office report published in March estimated that the total cost of replacing both jets would be $3.2 billion,
before inflation, for fiscal years 2010 to 2020."
There is an additional report that estimates another $1 Billion if not completed by 2020, which is called inflation and "cost overruns"! .... that brings these commitment to over $4 Billion.
As I quoted:
... "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money." Dirksen