ICE stuck with fleet of useless vehicles thanks to a 28-year-old Noem aide
ICE Barbie’s 28-year-old assistant, Madison Sheahan, quit her job a few months ago to run for Congress; before leaving, she ordered pickup trucks and SUVs emblazoned with the agency’s name, logo and motto. Naturally, the normally masked and clandestine immigration enforcers refuse to drive them.
“If leadership would have been consulted — leadership being the executive assistant directors, do you need marked vehicles, the people that have done this job would have said, ‘We don’t need marked vehicles, because you’re not going to use them,’” the first source said.
The GOP’s One Big, Beautiful Bill allocated $170 billion over four years for border security and immigration enforcement, and ICE announced in November that it would spend $2.25 million to buy 25 Chevrolet Tahoes wrapped in the agency’s logo. The Chevy contract was given to GOP donor Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports in North Carolina.
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The 28-year-old Sheahan graduated from Ohio State in 2019 and left ICE in January to run for Congress in Ohio. Sources told the Examiner that Noem and DHS special government employee Corey Lewandowski signed off on her purchase order of the marked vehicles.
Yet another example of the Trump Administration trusting only the most incompetent.
That seems like a really high price point for 25 vehicles, whether or not they get driven off the lot.
they're just going to use more budget, and paint them boring colors, and THEN use them