ICE Barbie’s Scandal-Hit $1 Billion Failure Faces the Ax

Thomas Levinson/TheDailyBeast/GettyThe scandal-hit contractor running Donald Trump’s flagship 1 billion self-deportation program blew through nearly all its cash with poor results and may now be stripped of the work entirely, PunchUp reports.Salus Worldwide Solutions—the firm named in a wider criminal corruption probe into contracts issued under Kristi Noem’s disaster-hit tenure as Homeland Security secretary—was handed a 200 million, six-month lifeline in May to keep Project Homecoming flying, as the Daily Beast’s sister investigations Substack outlet revealed last Friday. The extension, it reported, runs only through November, even though Salus had been contracted on a one-year base deal with two further option years. Read more at The Daily Beast.