Air Force cancels $24 million refrigerators for Air Force One

Published June 4, 2018 8:52pm ET



The Air Force has canceled plans to spend $24 million to replace two refrigerator “chillers” on President Trump’s Air Force One jet, the service has told Congress.

The service and the White House came to the conclusion that nixing the new units to cool food on the jet makes “prudent fiscal sense,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson wrote in a letter to Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., who sits on the Armed Services Committee.

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