Gary Peters EXPOSES Kristi Noem’s DHS Cover-Up — LIVE Senate Meltdown

🚨 The Math Isn’t Mathing: Christy Gnome’s Dismantling of DHS Exposed

The façade of toughness and border security talking points came crashing down like a cheap stage prop when Senator Gary Peters decided to stop playing games. What unfolded in that hearing room was not a substantive policy discussion; it was a brutal, systematic fact check of Secretary Christy Gnome’s leadership, revealing a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that appears to be contemptuous of Congress, reckless with taxpayer money, and actively undermining its own oversight structures. The question is no longer if DHS is breaking the law, but why Congress is allowing this blatant disregard for statutes to continue.

💰 The Guantanamo Bay Fiscal Fiasco: A Masterclass in Waste

The administration’s border wall obsession, with its fantastical price tag of billions, is merely a symptom of a far deeper rot—a disdain for financial accountability. Peters picked up the thread left by his colleagues, rightly pointing out that a physical wall, easily defeated by ladders and ropes, is a useless, half-measure if not supported by comprehensive technology. But the financial theatrics truly spiraled out of control when the discussion turned to Guantanamo Bay.

For the first time in history, the US government is sending immigrants apprehended on civil immigration charges—not terrorism or violent crime—to one of the most expensive, most politically charged detention sites on Earth. The sheer, naked hypocrisy of this decision is astounding. Peters, having visited the naval station, came armed with the receipts that the Secretary, of course, did not have.

While the cost to detain an immigrant at a domestic ICE facility hovers around $165 per day, Peters’ back-of-the-napkin calculation—based on a two-month cost estimate of $43 million for an operation holding a mere 87 people—put the price tag at a mind-boggling $100,000 per person per day. Let that sink in: a six hundred-fold increase in cost to detain a non-criminal immigrant, who is often flown down there only to be flown back to the US later.

Gnome’s inability to produce a single, detailed financial breakdown for an unprecedented and staggeringly expensive operational decision is not incompetence; it is wilful evasion. There is no rational defense for such catastrophic financial mismanagement. It is the action of an administration that views the national treasury as an endless personal slush fund, and who are so consumed by political posturing that they are willing to incinerate taxpayer dollars just to send a draconian message. The waste is not collateral damage; it is the entire, outrageous point.

🏛️ Right-Sizing or Radical Dismantling? The Rule of Law Crisis

But the cost of this administration’s hubris is not just measured in billions of misspent dollars; it is measured in the systematic erosion of democratic checks and balances. This is where Peters drove the final, devastating nail into the Secretary’s credibility.

Peters invoked Section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, a law that demands the DHS Secretary provide 60-day notice to Congress before making any significant creation, deletion, or alteration of organizations within the department. This statute exists precisely to prevent a DHS Secretary from driving the department like a wrecking ball through essential oversight offices without public and legislative accountability.

Gnome, of course, pleaded vague familiarity with the law before launching into a breathtakingly hollow defense: “We are following that law.” Her actions, however, tell a different, far more sinister story. She has gutted, without a single required congressional notification, critical offices, most notably the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) Division.

Her flimsy explanation—that she simply “right-sized” these offices because they were being “used as a political tool”—is a perfect encapsulation of administrative hypocrisy. To justify eliminating civil rights oversight by claiming the office was too “political” is a cynical masterpiece of spin. You don’t right-size oversight; you dismantle it. You don’t “right-size” civil liberties; you silence them. This is not an organizational adjustment; it is a radical elimination of internal dissent and legal accountability. The purpose is clear: to ensure that the politically motivated, legally questionable actions of the administration can proceed without internal challenge.

The ultimate betrayal of public trust is not merely the violation of the law, but the Secretary’s complete dismissal of the fact that she has done so, even in the face of whistleblower disclosures contradicting her claims. The failure to notify Congress is a calculated political maneuver designed to stonewall oversight and prevent any pre-emptive challenge to the dismantling of the department’s integrity.

🛑 Accountability Is Not Optional

What this hearing exposed is a pattern of behavior at the highest levels of DHS that is reckless, expensive, and authoritarian. It is a clear message to the American people that this administration believes it is above the law—that statutes requiring notice, transparency, and fiscal responsibility are mere suggestions to be discarded at their convenience.

Peters’ focused, unrelenting pressure—forcing the Secretary to answer for the $100,000-a-day detention costs and the clear violation of the Homeland Security Act—was a profound act of oversight. It was a warning shot fired across the bow of an administration that has weaponized a critical security department for political gain.

Transparency is not an optional add-on to democracy; it is the foundation. If Congress allows a cabinet secretary to unilaterally dismantle oversight and blow through billions in taxpayer funds without providing the most basic justification or statutory notice, then the rule of law is already lost. We must demand that the accountability proven possible in that hearing room becomes the unwavering standard for the entire administration. The damage done to DHS’s mission and America’s fiscal responsibility is a stain that must be addressed immediately, or the cost to the Republic will be far greater than $100,000 a day.