DONALD TRUMP’S BORDER PATROL WEAPONS SPENDING SKYROCKETS
Newsweek reveals that the Trump administration has ramped up its spending on certain weapons for DHS staff compared to that spent by previous administrations. According to federal procurement data, the government has spent $5,010,584 on chemical weapons since Trump secured the keys to the White House in January 2025. This is almost as much in around 11 months as the $6,821,592 former President Joe Biden spent during his whole administration, between 2021 and 2025. It is also around 11 times the $447,555 that the Trump's first administration spent between 2017 and 2021 …
Faisal Al-Juburi, chief external affairs officer at nonprofit immigration advocacy organization Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) said: "Such egregious spending on weaponry that inflicts harm indiscriminately should concern all Americans, regardless of status.
"We should all be alarmed about the overreach of power by an executive branch that cares not who is hurt in its campaign to eliminate certain populations and viewpoints from our society. We are witnessing the erosion of civil liberties and constitutional protections for everyone on U.S. soil, and such a brazen transgression of this nation’s purported freedoms is far beyond the red line of what we should accept from our elected and appointed leaders."
