Boeing 747 is located on the asphalt of the international Palm Beach airport after President Donald Trump visited the plane, February 15, 2025.
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. Asset The administration has formally accepted Boeing 747 Jet, which was given to the US by the government RhinitisThe Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Defense Secretary Pete HegeSth adopted a luxurious aircraft “according to all federal rules and regulations,” said Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell in a statement to CNBC.
The Department of Defense will work to provide a jet that the president Donald Trump He wants to use as new air force, meets “appropriate safety measures and missionary requirements,” said Parnell.
The advertisement contains the intention of the US government to take a plane, despite the warnings of experts and accusations of Democrats bribery.
On Wednesday, in the White House, Trump called a gift “a great thing” and said that Qatar gave the plane “so that they could help us.”
Boeing spent years working on transforming two 747 into another air force in the contract concluded during the first term of Trump as president. But the project is many years delayed, and the planes may not be ready before the end of the second term of Trump.
Trump administration officials at the beginning of this year said that the president was frustrated at this pace and considering alternatives. “Unfortunately, Boeing is a bit late,” said Trump on Wednesday.
But it is not clear if the 13-year-old katari jet, which has been priced at $ 400 million, can really offer a quick repair.
Experts said that the transformation of this jet into the air force could be Taxpayers' cost over $ 1 billion And take summer.
A nose gift was also raised by anger from Democrats and other critics, some of whom condemned the stock exchange as effective bribe US President. Even some Republicans arranged concerns about the potential threats of national security and other gift -related problems.
“The transaction seems to me full of political espionage, ethical and constitutional problems,” sleep. Susan CollinsR-Maine, he said last week.
But Trump has repeatedly defended the acceptance of a donation, saying that “stupid” would not be accepted by the free jet and insist that he would go to the US government “not for me. “
CEO Boeing, Kelly Ortberg, told the latest company analysts A quarterly combination of earnings that “we are still working with the client to change the program plan to enable the earlier first delivery while maintaining safety and quality concentration.”
– – Leslie Josephs from CNBC contributed to this report.