US Government takes $1B from nuclear modernization for gold-plated jet (nytimes.com)

Just use reader mode in firefox.

But the title says it all.

This is genius! No other administration could have come up with this plan! So much winning.

And at the same time I see this story on HN:

"4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44699052

Not sure how either story is making anything great again...

I am endlessly fascinated by how almost the entire American elite has just accepted the federal government being couped and at least four years of just self-dealing, corruption, theft and all of policy being driven by whatever idiotic childish whims one senile old man has, completely unrestrained by congress or courts or advisors.

are they just this pathetic? or do they largely see this as personally beneficial?

That's still cheaper than the current GAO estimate for the new Boeing 747-8 Air Force One replacements. The current estimate, for two, is $5.6 billion and they won't be ready until 2029. (The original cost was $3.9 billion.)

Completely on brand for Republicans