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- DHS spent $464 million on a no-bid contract last fall to buy 10 used airplanes.
- The contract went to Daedalus Aviation Corp., whose chairman donated to a committee supporting former DHS secretary Kristi Noem.
- The fleet—three business jets and seven Boeing 737s—has sat idle at Lake Charles, Louisiana.
- An internal DHS document says the agency lacks staff to operate the planes despite planning to use them for deportations.
