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After Donald Trump accepted a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, his administration <\/em>appears to have taken <\/em>$934 million<\/em><\/a> from a nuclear defense program<\/em> to renovate the <\/em>\u201cbiggest foreign gift\u201d<\/em><\/a> ever extended to a U.S. president \u2014 and hide the price tag from taxpayers. While working families across the country are drowning in sky-high costs for household goods, Trump is robbing their hard-earned dollars for his \u201cgold-adorned\u201d jet. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Donald Trump received a luxury jet from Qatar, and his administration is trying to hide the cost of the plane\u2019s renovations from the American people. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201c<\/strong>Officially, and conveniently, the price tag has been classified. <\/strong>\u2026 [T]he techniques being used to hide the cost of Mr. Trump\u2019s pet project are inventive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhich may explain why no one wants to discuss a mysterious, $934 million transfer of funds from one of the Pentagon\u2019s most over-budget, out-of-control projects \u2014 the modernization of America\u2019s aging, ground-based nuclear missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn recent weeks, congressional budget sleuths have come to think that amount, slipped into an obscure Pentagon document sent to Capitol Hill as a \u2018transfer\u2019 to an unnamed classified project, almost certainly includes the renovation of the new, gold-adorned Air Force One that Mr. Trump desperately wants in the air before his term is over. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConcerns over the many apparent conflicts of interests involved in the transaction, given Mr. Trump\u2019s government dealings and business ties with the Qataris, have swirled since reports of the gift emerged this spring. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnly at the Pentagon could someone reprogram $934 million and expect no one to notice. The coffers were refilled with the passage of the budget reconciliation bill several weeks ago, budget officials say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Republicans in Congress could have stopped this grift. Instead, they let Trump off the hook for this blatant corruption. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cThere are constitutional rules against a president accepting gifts from outside entities, including foreign governments and even members of Congress. Article I of the Constitution prevents any president from accepting a gift or emolument from a \u2018King, Prince, or foreign State,\u2019 without congressional consent.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Donald Trump accepted a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, his administration appears to have taken $934 million from a nuclear defense program to renovate the \u201cbiggest foreign gift\u201d ever extended to a U.S. president \u2014 and hide the price tag from taxpayers. 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