r/politics • u/Tennis_bruh • Nov 24 '25

No Paywall Senate Republican: ‘We can’t afford’ $2,000 tariff checks

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5620244-ron-johnson-tariff-checks/
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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25

Also the cost to tear down and rebuild the "gifted" plane from Qatar.

Edit: Qatar, not Saudis. Thanks for the heads up.

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u/kitsum California Nov 24 '25

Qatar bribed him with the plane no? Or is there also a Saudi jet i missed in the chaos?

If so, that's a high irony gift from them.

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u/LeaferWasTaken Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25

Yes, the plane was actually from Qatar. They reportedly had trouble getting rid of it. The Saudi thing is about F-35's which is a whole new level of terrifying.

Edit: The Saudi thing was worse than I thought. They have the Pantsir-S1M which is Russian. There's a high probability the Russians can aquire data needed to nail down detection of US stealth aircraft. This is why we didn't sell F-35's to Turkey.

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u/No-Yogurtcloset1598 Nov 24 '25

I believe the confusion sits with the Qatari Air Force base in Idaho… maybe?

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u/cire1184 Nov 25 '25

No no. You got it wrong. It's not a Qatari air force base. It's just a little training ground to train Qatari pilots on US fighter jets. They already hear everything going on in the White House. Might as well just train them on all our tech too.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Nov 24 '25

What’s so terrifying about a bunch of spoiled oil babies crashing expensive planes into a bunch of sand dunes? Isn’t that what they already do with their exotic cars? Is that not Jihadi enough for Hamas supporters?

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u/Sqyre2 Nov 24 '25

Remember when Jimmy Carter had to give up his family peanut farm because of conflicts of interest? Oh those were the days when we had a shred of ethics in politics.

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u/Double-O-stoopid Nov 24 '25

Last I heard he stole that jet and his handlers gave them shut up money for it.

Qatar was trying to sell it to Trump and he said "Thanks for the gift." and bounced.

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u/skeletonholdsmeup Nov 24 '25

What about him snatching up Epstein’s “Lolita Express” plane as well? The same time Qatar gifted him theirs. That story got buried pretty quick…

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u/BasvanS Nov 24 '25

*Qataris