Hillary Clinton may not be allowed to push for a plan to build a controversial and pricey fleet of presidential helicopters for Barack Obama anymore, but Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are picking up the slack.
At a private party last week, Clinton said she did everything in her power as senator to make sure that the manufacture of the helicopters in upstate New York went forward, and that any concerns about the future of the project, now endangered by President Obama’s publicly expressed doubts and a Pentagon review of its soaring costs, should be addressed to Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
Clinton said in a conversation at a private gala on March 11 in Washington that she had done “everything she could” to get the contract, according to one attendee.
