Noem eyes $50M for new DHS jet

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

05/15/25 1:24 PM ET


President Trump isn’t 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 Noem’s 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]

1. Sorry Kristi, but our government is broke, haven't you heard? You fly Southwest and Delta like the rest of us.

[sop]

2. Kristi thinks she's a televangelist.

[GB_RN]

3. She's Close...

Just had the wrong word. She’s a talibangelical.

[Danascot]

4. She should ask the Qatari

apparently they have more 'white elephant' jets they're dying to pawn off on other suckers.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. She's really a piece of work. nt

[Skittles]

6. but you girls better stick to two dolls

yes indeed

[sheshe2]

7. She wants to be 'outfitted' with a new plane?

[Bayard]

8. You get a new jet! And you get a new jet! And you get a new jet!

[slightlv]

9. This truly is such a childish administration... and I mean childish

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!

[Javaman]

10. Children pretending to be adults nt