Rep. Jamie Raskin warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that he could face millions in fines if he didn’t return a Qatari luxury jetliner gifted to the Trump administration.
In a letter sent Wednesday, the Maryland Democrat and member of the House Oversight Committee said Hegseth could be “on the hook” for the full cost of the airliner, some $400 million. Raskin said the gift’s acceptance “flies in the face” of the Constitution “and and more than 200 years of practice by past presidents.” The representative wrote that “common sense” should have shown Hegseth that accepting the gift was against the law.
