Kristi Noem mocked by Dems for wanting a new jet like Trump

At slightest 1 Democrat connected the House Appropriations Committee wants to cognize wherefore her subcommittee is being asked to o.k. backing for a caller pitchy to beryllium utilized by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

“My committee conscionable received a last-minute summation to the Coast Guard’s walk plan: $50 cardinal for a caller Gulfstream 5 pitchy for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s idiosyncratic use,” Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood said Wednesday. “She already has a Gulfstream 5, by the way, but she wants a caller 1 paid for with your payer dollars.”

DHS nationalist affairs authoritative Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily News that the CG-101 G550 being utilized by Noem is much than 20 years old, past its work beingness and has logged a batch of hours.

“This is simply a substance of safety,” McLaughlin said Wednesday night. “Much similar the Coast Guard’s ships that are good beyond their work beingness and harmless operational usage, Coast Guard’s craft are too.”

But the timing of Noem’s petition wasn’t mislaid connected California Rep. Ted Lieu, who joked astir President Trump saying this week that he’d beryllium a fool not to judge a $400 cardinal luxury jet being talented to him by the authorities of Qatar.

“Would a overseas state similar to springiness a acquisition of a $50 cardinal luxury backstage pitchy to Trump’s DHS Secretary?” Lieu asked connected X. “Asking for a friend.”

Trump has taken heat from Democrats and Republicans alike for his eagerness to judge an craft that could correspond ethical, optical and information concerns for the Office of the Presidency.

“I could beryllium a anserine idiosyncratic and say: ‘We don’t privation a escaped plane,’” Trump told reporters Monday earlier leaving connected a three-day travel to the Middle East. “I would ne'er beryllium 1 to crook down that benignant of an offer.”

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