The US Government, through the Coast Guard, has purchased two luxury private jets for Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Secretary, at a total cost of more than $170 million in taxpayer money. The federal government remains shut down, imperiling food aid and other assistance for tens of millions of Americans, and Trump is threatening to fire many more employees to "save money."
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the top Democrat on the House Committee on Homeland Security, called the spending “wholly inappropriate,” “blatantly immoral,” and “probably illegal” in a statement issued Sunday.
“While the nation suffers under this corrupt and extreme administration, Secretary Noem is fleecing the American taxpayers to live in luxury,” said Thompson. “Not only does she now have multiple fancy jets to use, she lives rent-free on Coast Guard property.”
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