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Michelle Hackman retweeted
Scoop w/ @tparti @mhackman: The Trump administration used Homeland Security funds to finance a set of controversial pro-Trump advertisements that recently began airing on television. The money came to fund the ads came specificially from CBP wsj.com/politics/policy/home… via @WSJ
Michelle Hackman retweeted
NEW
The Wall Street Journal has just published a new story about Corey Lewandowski’s corruption while he was a special government employee at DHS.
Lewandowski pitched a wealthy Gulf state to “hire me on the side,” offering help with issues under DHS jurisdiction, including visas.
After Palantir negotiated a $2.7 billion DHS agreement, the contract sat unsigned while Lewandowski repeatedly sought a private one-on-one meeting with CEO Alex Karp.
Karp and other Palantir officials were so uncomfortable with the circumstances that the meeting was canceled.
The agreement was ultimately reduced to $1 billion.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/4xMsbWW
Michelle Hackman retweeted
The president is increasingly frustrated with DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, after he made a series of off-message remarks recently that angered many of the president’s outside allies, w/ @mhackman wsj.com/politics/policy/trum…
Michelle Hackman retweeted
During a closed-door briefing last week with senior DHS officials, Sen. Rand Paul said he wouldn't hold a hearing on Trump's ICE nominee until he got more information on the shootings of two US citizens in Minneapolis earlier this year, w/ @mhackman wsj.com/politics/policy/trum…
Michelle Hackman retweeted
NEW: Number of student visas that Trump's State Dept has issued to foreign students is down significantly following White House crackdown.
Visas to Indian students are down 60% and 46% for Chinese students from May-Aug. 2025, compared to 2017, per Center for Immigration Studies.
Michelle Hackman retweeted
Stop what you are doing and read this incredible story on Trump’s fundraising by my colleagues @jdawsey1 @AnnieLinskey @DanaMattioli @EmilyGlazer
Gift link
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Michelle Hackman retweeted
NEW: @StateDept finalized a rule implementing a "visa bond" program for tourist/business visitor visas, to be imposed on a list of countries TBD.
Applicants for B1/B2 visas from those countries will have to pay a $10k, $15k, or $20k bond, to be paid back once the visa expires.
Michelle Hackman retweeted
"Mullin has told associates that, ahead of November, his primary marching orders are to lower his agency’s profile and avoid bad press so the issue of immigration recedes in the public consciousness" wsj.com/politics/policy/the-…
Michelle Hackman retweeted
The new DHS boss is trying to clean house — and make big changes at DHS, with an eye toward lowering the profile of the agency. Our latest with a free link: wsj.com/politics/policy/the-…
Michelle Hackman retweeted
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has launched a probe into the $38 billion warehouse-to-detention program championed by former Secretary Kristi Noem from @tparti @MHackman @shaneshifflett wsj.com/politics/policy/watc… via @WSJ
Michelle Hackman retweeted
The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.
Michelle Hackman retweeted
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has continued using a waterfront house on a military base in Washington, D.C., that she took over as a cabinet member @marianne_levine @tparti @MHackman wsj.com/politics/national-se…
Michelle Hackman retweeted
Trump may have ousted Kristi Noem from DHS, but his administration is hanging onto the controversial $70 million jet she leased during her tenure.
The administration plans to use the plane, which is nicer than most other government jets, for travel by select Cabinet secretaries. First lady Melania Trump’s office would also have access to the jet wsj.com/politics/policy/the-… @MHackman @jdawsey1
Michelle Hackman retweeted
Just before Kristi Noem left DHS last month her team massively overpaid for an empty Salt Lake City warehouse it plans to convert into an ICE detention center. "Crazy," one broker told me. The deal--and 10 other recent warehouse purchases--are now under investigation.
Michelle Hackman retweeted
NEW: In interview w/ colleague @BretBaier, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin floats the idea of stripping CBP/customs officers from airports in large sanctuary cities as retaliation for refusing to cooperate with the federal government. International travelers wouldn’t be able to fly into airports and leave without going through customs.
Mullin points out that Democrats are also refusing to fund CBP.
“It’s something we’re looking at,” Mullin said.
Michelle Hackman retweeted
Inspector general probing network of aides at Noem’s DHS. One FEMA contractor was allegedly getting $19K a week—~1M a year. (Don’t confuse this gift @WSJ article about possible corruption at DHS from one last week about possible corruption at DOJ.)
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Michelle Hackman retweeted
Mullin claimed that the House sent him on a classified trip that only four people knew about. When Paul and Peters pressed him on which agency classified it, it led to this exchange:
MULLIN: It wasn’t an agency. It was done here, well, in the House at the time.
PETERS: The House classified it?
MULLIN: I’m assuming.
Except the House doesn't have that power. All classification authority flows from the president/executive.
Michelle Hackman retweeted
Sen. Rand Paul tells us he’s a no vote on Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation to lead DHS. The two have personal drama after Mullin called Paul a snake in the aftermath of a 2017 attack.
Here’s what he had to say about his vote:
Michelle Hackman retweeted
... But is the physical space the problem? Or is the rapid expansion of detention space, overseen by inexperienced contractors, a "recipe for failure?"
A look at how Camp East Montana unraveled
wsj.com/us-news/how-ices-lar… w/ @MHackman
Michelle Hackman retweeted
SCOOP: Discussions are underway inside DHS about reevaluating plans to buy a Boeing 737 MAX luxury jet that had been used by Kristi Noem prior to her ouster as DHS secretary, @NRO
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