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Now ICE Barbie Wants Her Own Brand New $50M Private Jet

May 14, 2025
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears to have taken her cue from President Donald Trump with a new request for her own private jet.

The U.S. Coast Guard made a last-minute change to its 2025 budget to secure a $50 million new plane for Noem, Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood revealed in a Wednesday hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.

“I was horrified last Friday when we received a last-minute addition to your spend plan for Fiscal [Year] ‘25: A new $50 million Gulfstream 5 for Secretary Noem’s personal travel coming from the Coast Guard budget,” Underwood told acting Coast Guard Chief Admiral Kevin Lunday. “She already has a Gulfstream 5, by the way. This is a new one.”

My committee just received a last-minute addition to the Coast Guard’s spend plan: $50 million for a new Gulfstream 5 jet for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s personal use. She already has a Gulfstream 5, by the way, but she wants a new one paid for with your taxpayer dollars.We…

— Rep. Lauren Underwood (@RepUnderwood) May 14, 2025

Underwood asked Lunday whether he received any request or communication from the top levels of the Homeland Security Department or the Trump administration regarding a new plane for Noem, but the admiral evaded the question.

“Meeting the needs of our Coast Guard men and women that are doing frontline operations is my top operational priority, and it’s a top operational priority of the secretary,” he said. “She’s been clear with that to me, and I know she testified to that effect before the subcommittee last week.”

Lunday explained that the Coast Guard operates two military long-range command and control aircraft in its fleet. The older one is “approaching obsolescence and the end of its service life” but provides a crucial service to Coast Guard leaders and Noem, he added.

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: (EDITOR'S NOTE: This Handout image was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images' editorial policy.)  In this U.S. Coast Guard handout, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting Commandant of the Coast Guard, discuss response efforts to the aircraft incident on the Potomac River on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas collided midair with a military Black Hawk helicopter while on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside of Washington, DC. According to reports, there were no survivors among the 67 people onboard both aircraft.  (Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles/ U.S. Coast Guard via Getty Images)
Admiral Kevin Lunday, acting Coast Guard commandant, said the aircraft being used by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other top leaders are “approaching obsolescence.” Getty Images

“This aircraft is necessary to provide… secure, reliable, on-demand communications and movement to go forward, visit our operating forces conducting the missions, and then come back here to Washington to make sure we can work together to get them what they need,” he said.

But Underwood was unsatisfied with the response.

“I just want to note that I didn’t hear the admiral answer the question about whether he was directed to purchase this new Gulfstream 5,” she said. “And I just want to note that as I conclude my time.”

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Beast that the current Gulfstream being used is over 20 years old and outside of its service life, “well beyond operational usage hours for a corporate aircraft.”

“This is a matter of safety,” she said in a statement. “Much like the Coast Guard’s ships that are well beyond their service life and safe operational usage, Coast Guard’s aircraft are too. This administration is taking action to restore our Nation’s finest maritime Armed Service to a capable fighting force.”

Lavish jets have been a touchy topic for the government since President Donald Trump announced that he planned to accept a $400 million plane as a gift from Qatar.

Though both Democrats and Republicans have raised alarms over security and ethics concerns, Trump insists that the U.S. should have the “most impressive” aircraft.

The post Now ICE Barbie Wants Her Own Brand New $50M Private Jet appeared first on The Daily Beast.

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