Assistant Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Director Tricia McLaughlin is flaming the Washington Post for leaving out of its reporting that the government will save $279 million by operating its own fleet of planes used to deport illegal migrants.

McLaughlin responded on Wednesday to an X comment by the Post’s Dan Eggen who was touting the paper’s report that DHS has contracted with suppliers to raise its own fleet of Boeing 737s to ferry deported migrants back to their home countries. Eggen also noted that up to now, DHS has relied on charter companies to supply the flights.

But nowhere did the Post story mention the DHS cost-benefit analysis that assembling its own fleet of planes will save the government millions of dollars.

In her X reply to Eggen, McLaughlin wrote, “*So

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