Let’s talk about planes, power, and priorities.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just found nearly a billion dollars — $934 million to be exact — hidden deep in the Pentagon couch cushions. That money was supposed to fund Sentinel, a $77.7 billion modernization project for America’s aging nuclear missile system. Instead, it’s being rerouted to a classified project.

But here’s what we know about that classified project, thanks to reporting from The New York Times: part of it is funding a personal, Qatar-backed Air Force One project for President Trump.

Yes, you heard that right. Remember that Boeing 747-8 plane that the Qatari royal family donated to Trump earlier this year, well, it’s now being retrofitted for the commander-in-chief. The Secretary of the Air Force estimates the job will cost “less than $400 million,” but aviation experts and engineers say that number is optimistic at best.

NBC News reported that the actual cost

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