GOP senator blocks Schumer request to stop Trump from using taxpayer money to ‘max out’ new Air Force One

Republican Sen. Deb Fischer (Neb.) on Wednesday objected to a request from Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) for unanimous consent to prohibit President Trump from using taxpayer money to further retrofit a luxury Boeing 747 gifted to the president from Qatar.

The GOP senator blocked Schumer’s request to pass his Presidential Airlift Security Act, which would stop the Pentagon from spending more taxpayer money to modify Trump’s new jet.

Schumer said Trump’s decision to accept the jet to serve as the new Air Force One was another example of what he called “corruption” in the administration.

“Now he wants the taxpayers to fund his palace in the sky as well. Trump’s $400 million foreign jet, the biggest gift a president has received from a foreign government ever, is anything but free. Taxpayers will have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to outfit Trump’s........

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