Noem eyes $50M for new DHS jet
Source: The Hill
05/15/25 1:24 PM ET
President Trump isnt the only administration official eyeing a new jet: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is also set to get one under a last-minute addition to the Coast Guard budget.
Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, blasted the agency for the $50 million line item that had never been requested or even mentioned before.
I was horrified last Friday when we received a last minute addition to your spend plan for fiscal 25, a new $50 million Gulfstream 5 for Secretary Noems personal travel coming from the Coast Guard budget. She already has a Gulfstream 5, by the way, this is a new one, Underwood said during a Wednesday hearing.
The Department of Homeland Security has defended the request.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5302238-noem-new-homeland-security-jet/

Initech
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sop
(14,388 posts)Just had the wrong word. Shes a talibangelical.
Danascot
(5,024 posts)apparently they have more 'white elephant' jets they're dying to pawn off on other suckers.
leftyladyfrommo
(19,793 posts)Skittles
(164,451 posts)yes indeed
sheshe2
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Bayard
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slightlv
(5,568 posts)as in they all take on the antics and actions and words of kids. This is obviously a "me, me, me, me, too!" tell. She's demonstrating she's every bit as important as is trump, himself... tho I think he might think otherwise.
We may have to do something radical like an income tax boycott to protest all the money going to not only the super rich, but government officials while they cut everything that helps We, the People.
This is truly the most corrupt administration I've EVER seen or read about. It puts South American 3rd world countries to shame!