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Kristi Noem buys herself two Gulfstream jets using $172 million in taxpayer money

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 18, 2025
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The U.S. government is shut down, but Kristi Noem is on a taxpayer-funded shopping spree. The former South Dakota governor, who impressed Trump with her stupefying cruelty by killing a puppy because she hated it, just spent $172 million on two private jets for herself.

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