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A $38 Billion Program Under the Microscope

"The DHS OIG recently announced an 'audit of ICE's acquisition of detention space,' a review that will cover all 11 vacant warehouses US ICE purchased over just a few months last winter. The program, formally known as the ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative, was funded through the One Big Beautiful Bill passed by congressional Republicans and planned to dedicate $38.3 billion to retrofitting commercial warehouses into detention centres capable of holding more than 92,000 detainees."

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DHS also wasted a king's ransom purchasing a fleet of marked vehicles that ICE can't use because of Kristi Noem's 28-year-old idiotic assistant Madison Sheahan who has since left DHS with her tail between her legs and is risibly running for congress in Ohio. Good-for-nothing Corey Lewandowski signed off on her ridiculous purchase order of the useless ICE vehicles, another blow to the wallets and purses of the hardworking American taxpayer.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-15 03:44 AM | Reply

Listen: It was obviously one of Kristi's life ambitions to rise to a position of power where she could loot public funds.

Check her bank accounts, all of them, and those of her friends.

That won't happen until the Looter-in-Chief is castrated, of course.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-15 08:21 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Executed

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-15 11:55 AM | Reply

"properties"

Trump fancies himself a Real Estate guy, is why.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-15 12:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

More of your tax dollars at work...

OCU

#5 | Posted by OCUser at 2026-05-17 08:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Just follow the money.
Most corrupt administration in US history.
Ever.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-18 06:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Well, they had to bankrupt America so that they could have an excuse to murder not only people in Iran or Cuba, but an excuse to tank FDRs safety net, so we the poor get so desperate that democracy is a thing of the past.
I think the truest thing we were ever told about out government was told by James Mattis and John Kelly, and that truth was that Trump is fascist to his core.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-05-18 07:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Golly--where are those DOGE guys when you need them? I'll wager that Scooter, Big Balls and Dorkenstein will be able to get to the bottom of this before lunch. They'll use Grok to get all the answers...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2026-05-18 08:16 AM | Reply

Like I said, the GOP is solely interested in looting as much as they can from the US taxpayers until the entire system collapses.

Remember in Sopranos when Tony was looting the Sporting Goods store that owed him for gambling taking all the cash, cleaning out the shelves and then using the credit lines to buy stacks of plane tickets etc leaving Davey Scatino in bankruptcy?

That's whats happening now.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-05-18 02:56 PM | Reply

Are there no conservatives with any integrity left in America?

I have yet to read any of the deplorable Trumping MAGAts speaking out against anything Trump.

The man is literally destroying America.

Physically.

Morally.

Physiologically.

This country has never been weaker or worse off.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-18 03:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Because Noem is an empty headed, vapid useless pile of implants and hair extensions?

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-18 05:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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