A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’
  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    Trump migrant detentions at Guantanamo Bay cost $100,000 per person daily, senator says

    President Donald Trump’s use of the Guantanamo Bay naval base to house migrants appears to cost $100,000 per day for each detainee, U.S. Senator Gary Peters said during a hearing on Tuesday, decrying what he described as a prime example of wasteful government spending.

    Peters, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the high cost, far more than the $165 per day in U.S. immigration detention facilities. Peters also asked why detainees have been sent to the American naval base in Cuba but then shuttled back to the United States at taxpayer expens

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-migrant-detentions-guantanamo-bay-cost-100000-per-person-daily-senator-2025-05-20/

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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      4 minutes ago

      Peters also asked why detainees have been sent to the American naval base in Cuba but then shuttled back to the United States at taxpayer expens

      Because his buddies have a stake in whatever is used to shuttle them. More use = more grifting