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This administration’s spending priorities are absurd.

Less science funding, but we’re potentially going to ship 30,000 suspected gang members to Cuba and have our military host them there?

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The reporting I saw this morning was that they can only process 15 people at a time at Gitmo, so each military flight has a max of 15 passengers. From the photos DHS released, it looks like they're using a huge cargo jet like a C-17, and the photos only show 3 or 4 detainees. The cost of transporting each person must be astronomical.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guantanamo-bay-migrants-trump/

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/02/04/dhs-releases-images-firs...

Prevention always cheaper than cure.

C-17: $252,000

C-130E: $852,000

https://economictimes.com/nri/latest-updates/up-to-852000-ho...

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