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DHS $220 Million Self-Deportation Ad Campaign Faces Senate Scrutiny; Contracts Bypassed Competitive Bidding

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Senate scrutiny of the Department of Homeland Security’s $220 million taxpayer-funded advertising campaign intensified in the days following Kristi Noem’s March 3, 2026 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, with contracting irregularities drawing bipartisan condemnation and the campaign …

Kristi Noem John Kennedy U.S. Department of Homeland Security Safe America Media Senate Judiciary Committee self-dealing no-bid-contracts propaganda government-corruption immigration-enforcement +1 more
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Noem Faces Bipartisan Senate Rebuke as Tillis Calls Her Leadership "A Disaster"

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 3, 2026 for her first major oversight hearing since the deaths of two U.S. citizens killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. The nearly four-hour session produced extraordinary bipartisan …

Kristi Noem Thom Tillis John Kennedy Dick Durbin Cory Booker +3 more congressional-oversight institutional-accountability immigration-enforcement operation-metro-surge bipartisan-opposition +3 more
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White House Declares Military Force 'Always an Option' to Acquire Greenland

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that President Trump is ‘discussing a range of options’ to acquire Greenland and that ‘utilizing the U.S. military is always an option.’ Stephen Miller declared it Washington’s ‘formal position’ that …

Donald Trump Stephen Miller Karoline Leavitt Mette Frederiksen North Atlantic Treaty Organization +2 more foreign-policy military-threat nato greenland denmark +2 more
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