05/17/2021
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"It costs $85 million per aircraft, and it can fly 44 percent of the time. That is absolutely absurd."
"my objective as a U.S. Congress person is to make sure that our tax dollars are being spent to actually keep us safe, not line the pockets of defense contractors for boondoggles."
"The military did not have the common sense to make F-35 engines transportable by all of the tow trucks it owns."
"The DOD plans to buy 2,456 F-35s, and the F-35 is one of the most egregious boondoggles in the history of the Pentagon."