CBS News bemoans cost of keeping Trump border czar Tom Homan safe

CBS News just dropped an exclusive story remarking on the cost of security for border czar Tom Homan.

The outlet seems to think that the cost of protecting Homan from the people who would want to harm him, like extremist left-wing ideologues and Mexican cartels, is outrageous.

“The total cost of Homan’s security—with roughly $500,000 in salaries for agents plus airfare, hotel bills and other travel expenses for his protective bubble—adds up to around $1 million per month for the Trump appointee, another administration official said,” the article reads.

While Homan has declined to comment, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin told the outlet that “dangerous rhetoric” is to blame for the security bill.

“DHS ensures our leaders are safe and protected,” she said. “We will continue to take measures to ensure Mr. Homan and his family are safe.”

“The protection for Homan — which includes a security detail at his home, when he drives to his offices in the White House West Wing and at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s D.C. headquarters, or when he is out in public — is paid for by DHS,” CBS News wrote.

An “administration official” who gave information for the article questions whether such costly security is necessary and claims it has siphoned resources potentially needed by other officials.

“One administration official described the personnel and money funneled to Homan’s security detail as ‘extravagant,’ adding they ‘sucked resources away from other senior leadership, including other cabinet members.’”

They even noted that Homan travels in a 4-car motorcade, “more cars than the two-car package cabinet members typically use.”

Protection for the border czar was requested of the Biden administration, but had been rejected.

“Homan frequently appears on television and in other media interviews, increasing his public profile — and he doesn’t mince words when it comes to the administration’s views on illegal immigration,” they outlet lamented. “He has argued for arresting U.S. citizens who knowingly harbor people who are in the country illegally or impede law enforcement efforts, and has called for drug cartels, which he said have an influence in southern border states, to be ‘wiped off the face of the earth.’”

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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