Homeland Security paid $464M for jets, fleet left parked

BREAKING: ICE charter Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a massive contract to operate DHS's "deportation fleet." gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...

Remember when DHS spent half a billion dollars on a fleet of 10 jets to deport people? Yeah, they’re just parked in Louisiana, because DHS didn’t bother to hire staff to operate the fleet.

Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them. The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. But the fleet has largely sat idle for months. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

Trump is throwing away the hard-earned money of Americans. Millions on the reflecting pool, billions on tax cuts to uber-wealthy GOP donors, and almost $500,000,000 on planes that sit idle. All the while, people can't afford a pound of hamburger. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

Trump has a DHS fleet of 10 brand new airplanes parked. $464 million paid by our tax dollars. Is this how the entire Trump Cabinet flees the USA to avoid prosecution for their crimes? Gift article from NYTimes. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

Nothing but waste, fraud & abuse. Last fall, the Dept. of Homeland Security spent $464M on a no-bid contract to buy 10 used airplanes from a firm in N. Virginia. The department said it had no time to consider other offers. The planes are idle & NOT being used. #NoBidContracts #WFA #Blues

Another no-bid contract. Another waste of our tax dollars. Another bad judgment by a Trump appointee.

Another example of no-bid contracts worth hundreds of millions signed during the Kristi Noem/Corey Lewandowski regime at DHS - this one for unused airplanes. I suspect there were kickbacks, as w/ the warehouses never converted to detention camps. #Accountability www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

Funny how "urgently needed" deportation jets cost taxpayers nearly half a billion on a no-bid deal, only to sit gathering dust for months.

Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then it parked them. No-bid contract, and the fleet is idle. Where is Congress? Silent. Where is the Inspector General's Office? Terminated. OUR MONEY and where is the outrage? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

DHS spent $464 million on private jets for deportation flights. This administration is just pissing away our money into a black hole on pointless bullshit.

DHS skipped competitive bidding on $464 million in used jets because deportation flights could not wait. Seven now sit parked in Lake Charles because nobody was hired to fly them, and one of the luxury jets was floated for Kash Patel's use. The seller's chairman donated to Noem.

Another result of Republicans shoveling unrestricted money at DHS: a no-bid contract of $464 million for planes the agency hasn't actually used www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

Also, of course, it was a no-bid contract. That’s all these ppl do is hook up their friends with taxpayer $$$ and grab the kickbacks Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

DHS spent $464 MILLION on a no-bid contract for 10 used planes it said were urgently needed for deportations. Then it barely flew them Former ICE Director Sandweg: Buying its own fleet “would absolutely not make the top ten” things ICE needed. $464M. No bid. Planes parked. #BlueSky #MedSky #LawSky