Via #RawStory @ 9:25pm ET on Apr 18, 2025
#Politico reported Friday that 3 senior #Pentagon officials have now been fired as part of the leak investigation: #Hegseth senior advisor #DanCaldwell, deputy chief of staff #DarinSelnick and #ColinCarroll — who was #DeputyDefenseSecretary #StephenFeinberg's #ChiefOfStaff — have all been officially terminated. And #JoeKasper, who was Hegseth's own chief of staff, is now leaving the Pentagon for a separate job in the Pentagon.
Raw Story · 'Complete meltdown': Top Pentagon staffers fired as 'chaos' engulfs Hegseth’s inner circle
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![Heather Cox Richardson War? Detention Camps Privatization of Camps 3/7/2025
Today, in the Oval Office press conference, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested where they intend to put government money, promising a defense budget of $1 trillion, a significant jump from the current $892 defense budget. “[W]e have to be strong because you've got a lot of bad forces out there now,” Trump said.
Allison McCann, Alexandra Berzon, and Hamed Aleaziz of the New York Times reported today that the administration also intends to spend as much as $45 billion over the next two years on new detention facilities for immigrants. In the last fiscal year, the total amount of federal money allocated to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement was about $3.4 billion. The new facilities will be in private hands and will operate with lower standards and less oversight than current detention facilities.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/302/755/893/893/822/original/d054f8257247caa4.jpeg "Heather Cox Richardson War? Detention Camps Privatization of Camps 3/7/2025
Today, in the Oval Office press conference, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested where they intend to put government money, promising a defense budget of $1 trillion, a significant jump from the current $892 defense budget. “[W]e have to be strong because you've got a lot of bad forces out there now,” Trump said.
Allison McCann, Alexandra Berzon, and Hamed Aleaziz of the New York Times reported today that the administration also intends to spend as much as $45 billion over the next two years on new detention facilities for immigrants. In the last fiscal year, the total amount of federal money allocated to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement was about $3.4 billion. The new facilities will be in private hands and will operate with lower standards and less oversight than current detention facilities.")
