'No expense has been spared': Inside a luxury jet DHS wants to buy for deportations
WASHINGTON — An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.
DHS recently began leasing the Boeing 737 Max 8, which DHS officials have described as a luxury jet, but now Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking approval from OMB to purchase it for $70 million, according to two DHS officials involved in the request. ICE told OMB that it would be used for deportations and travel for Cabinet officials, the two officials said.
A DHS spokesperson said “at least one of the bedrooms is currently being converted for seating to prepare the aircraft to meet the demands of its deportation mission set” when asked how the plane would be used for deportations.
Some officials at ICE, which is under DHS, initially deemed the aircraft too luxurious in the way it was outfitted to be used for immigrant deportations, according to one of the officials. The request to purchase the jet has prompted some DHS officials to privately question whether it is a necessary expense to support President Donald Trump’s mass deportations policy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/no-expense-spared-inside-luxury-100000942.html
Oh please. It's going to be Kristi Noem's and Cory Lendowski's boom boom jet.
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