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Grassley wants to know more about Air Forces hot cup tab
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wants more information about an air bases penchant for coffee cups that cost more than $1,200 each.
Grassley, as Fox News previously reported, originally questioned the procurement in an Oct. 2 letter to Wilson. Grassleys letter cited a Sept. 26 Fox News report that in the past three years, the 60th Aerial Squadron at Travis Air Force Base in California had purchased dozens of cups for nearly $56,000. The cups can reheat liquids on board the Air Forces fleet of cargo aircraft.
The squadron reported that the cups have handles that break easily when dropped. Since replacement handles arent available, the whole cup has to be replaced. In 2016, the squadron said that it purchased 10 hot cups for $6,930, with the price for each surging from $693 to $1,220 in 2018 (The result: a total expenditure of $32,000 for 25 cups.)
She told Grassley that the Air Force has purchased 391 of these items at a total cost of $326,785 since 2016 an average per-item cost of around $835.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-wants-to-know-more-about-air-forces-hot-cup-tab
Turbineguy
(37,366 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)But you can get a set of four at COSTCO for only $3,400.
RainCaster
(10,914 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)underpants
(182,879 posts)They technological advances of the Air Force with this is simply amazing.
The Polack MSgt
(13,192 posts)Me and Mr. Jones Inc.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)Is this supposed to make grassley appear neutral or something? We all know better.
underpants
(182,879 posts)Of course THE CARAVAN is the top story. Then I saw this story and the one about the mysterious things on the beach:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211322324
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)DFW
(54,437 posts)Lemme guess--the company that makes the cups contributes a lot of money to Republicans.
Am I getting warm?