Vultures Circle as Trump Offers Up $2.3 Billion Disaster Deal

A PunchUp investigation reports that scandal-hit companies joined a virtual Homeland Security briefing for a $2.3 billion Trump administration contract tied to Project Homecoming, a controversial self-deportation effort. The Daily Beast sister Substack says Palantir, GEO Group, and CSI Aviation led a call last week for the second version of the program. In round one, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, 54, awarded $915 million in May 2025 to Salus Worldwide Solutions, a two-year-old firm later facing corruption allegations about how it won. Draft terms for the new contract require bidders to pay unaccompanied migrant children who “choose” to leave and track eligible migrants across more than 35 detention sites using commercial software.