Having his own private army of ICE thugs wasn’t enough…Boss Hogg wanted an Air Force also.

 

Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them.

The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets from a prominent Trump campaign contributor, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. But the fleet has sat idle for months, because they don’t have the staff to fly them.

The agency rushed headlong to spend nearly half a billion dollars, only to end up with planes it did not fly.

The contract also illuminated a broader trend within the second Trump administration: no bid contracts awarded to people with connections to Mr. Trump. The company that received this contract, Daedalus Aviation Corporation, is led by a chairman who had donated large sums to a political committee favoring the president.

The agency rushed headlong to spend nearly half a billion dollars, only to end up with planes it did not fly.

The department has invoked the urgency exemption to justify more than $29 billion in no bid contracts across about 500 contracts awarded during Mr. Trump’s second term, including the reflecting pool.


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