F-35 Total Costs Climb Past $1.5 Trillion — How High Will They Go?

[View this email in your browser]( [F-35 Total Costs Climb Past $1.5 Trillion — How High Will They Go?]( Will it ever be clear what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – the most expensive weapons system in history – has cost American taxpayers? On Monday, a Pentagon report to Congress predicted that the total cost of developing and producing 2,456 of the stealth jets, up from 2,443, may be as high as $406.5 billion. As Bloomberg... [Read more...]( [Like F-35 Total Costs Climb Past $1.5 Trillion — How High Will They Go? on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( [Trump’s Budget Falls Far Short of Pledge to Wipe Out the Deficit: CBO]( President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal 2018 already has encountered stiff resistance from Republicans and Democrats alike and is unlikely to be embraced in its entirety when the House... [Read more...]( [Like Trump’s Budget Falls Far Short of Pledge to Wipe Out the Deficit: CBO on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( Sponsor Content [[Banned for 82 years] Now OPEN to Regular Investors]( For the past 82 years, you've likely missed out on some of the biggest winners in the history of investing. Businesses like GoPro, which would have turned a $100 stake into about $133,000... Airbnb, where a $100 stake from 2009 is now worth $797,000... and Uber, which turned $100 into $1.25 million over the past 7 years. But you don't have to miss out anymore! [Click here to see why.]( [Trump’s Non-Existent Foreign Policy Is Costing the US Both Money and Influence]( The Trump administration has no coherent foreign policy, and the U.S. is paying the price for the President’s failure to figure out a post–Obama strategic framework. Trump and many of his... [Read more...]( [Like Trump’s Non-Existent Foreign Policy Is Costing the US Both Money and Influence on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( [Surprise! There Are Now Two Senate GOP Health Care Bills in Play]( Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell earlier this week seemed to be trying to assert some control over his chamber at a time when Washington, in general, has gone haywire. McConnell... [Read more...]( [Like Surprise! There Are Now Two Senate GOP Health Care Bills in Play on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( [Feds' Big Bust: $1.3 Billion Health Insurance Fraud Takedown]( On the same day that Republican members of the Senate released a pair of bills aimed at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Justice highlighted a problem with... [Read more...]( [Like Feds' Big Bust: $1.3 Billion Health Insurance Fraud Takedown on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Google Plus One Button]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Forward to Friend]( Copyright © 2017 The Fiscal Times, All rights reserved. You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed at our website, thefiscaltimes.com. [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences](