News, Air Force One's new refrigerators cost $24 million (examples, government, President)

[JD59]

Air Force One is primed to receive an upgrade that will include new refrigerators expected to cost American taxpayers nearly $24 million.

The US Air Force awarded Boeing a $23.6 million contract in December to replace two of the five "cold chiller units" aboard the aircraft used by President Donald Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/26/polit...ing/index.html

[odanny]

I hear the gold plated faucets weren’t cheap either.

[greywar]

The argument is that its not cheap to keep 3,000 meals refrigerated.

But if those meals are needed, you would be better off with MRE's. And it would save 24 million.....

[msgsing]

I hear the appliance department at Lowes has a fridge sale going on. Can't hurt to check it out.

[Erratikmind]

That's a lot of T.V. dinners.

[parfleche]

The effing swamp.Trump did not create it He is trying to drain it.

[Ultor]

Originally Posted by greywar

The argument is that its not cheap to keep 3,000 meals refrigerated.

But if those meals are needed, you would be better off with MRE's. And it would save 24 million.....

LOL! I'd like to see that just to see Jim Acosta's conniption fit!

[redwood66]

Government contracts are a racket and filled with leaches from both sides of the political aisle. They all belly up to the trough.

[Mtnluver8956]

Originally Posted by parfleche

The effing swamp.Trump did not create it He is trying to drain it.

Thats what Trumpers keep on saying while he spits in their face

[lvmensch]

Let us not get carried away. No fan of Trump but this is the problem of maintaining an airline fleet of very few examples. And these few airplanes go well past the normal. So let it be and hope the Feds got a reasonable deal.