BLUMENTHAL, WELCH, & SCHIFF DEMAND ANSWERS AFTER DHS PAYS $464 MILLION FOR LUXURY JETS & AIRPLANES VIA A NO-BID CONTRACT WITH COMPANY OWNED BY PROMINENT TRUMP SUPPORTER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Peter Welch (D-VT), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Adam Schiff (D-CA), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today demanded answers from Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Markwayne Mullin, about DHS's wasteful purchase of 10 airplanes for $464 million via a no-bid contract. In a letter to Mullin, the Senators called out the Department's growing and alarming reliance on no-bid contracts since the beginning of the second Trump Administration and raised concerns that the owner ...