On May 14, 2026, The Washington Post reported, citing an internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo, that ICE staffers were "exploring what work can be done" at a Hagerstown, Maryland warehouse being converted into a 1,500-person ICE detention facility despite a Baltimore federal judge's standing temporary injunction blocking the project. The Baltimore judge had found the building's four toilets and two water fountains insufficient for the planned capacity. The Hagerstown build-out and operations contract was awarded in March 2026 to KVG LLC, a Pennsylvania-based defense contractor with no prior experience operating detention facilities, with a $113 million base and a $642 million three-year ceiling.
On May 14, 2026, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics released two financial-disclosure forms covering President Donald Trump's first three months of his second term. The filings show more than 3,700 individual securities transactions in major U.S. corporate equities — including Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Oracle, Broadcom, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Nvidia, Apple, and Amazon — with a cumulative dollar range of $220 million to $750 million. The president is simultaneously the chief executive whose administration regulates, contracts with, sues, prosecutes, and sets trade policy affecting many of the same companies. Subsequent Associated Press reporting on May 19, 2026 identified specific positions whose value was directly affected by the president's own decisions — among them Nvidia, after he approved its advanced-chip sales to China; major U.S. defense contractors, amid the Iran war; and Intel, after the federal government took a 10% equity stake. The OGE disclosure form by design reports values only in broad ranges, with no execution date, direction (purchase/sale of equivalent securities can both appear separately), price, profit, or counterparty information.
On May 14, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General announced an audit of whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acquired warehouse properties — being converted into detention facilities under a multibillion-dollar program launched by then-Secretary Kristi Noem and adviser Corey Lewandowski — "in a cost-effective manner." Real-estate data tracker CoStar found DHS paid an average of about 13% above market value for warehouses across multiple states; aggregate spending on the warehouse program has been reported at about $1 billion across eight states. The OIG also opened a separate investigation of Mr. Lewandowski's role as a special government employee.
On May 14, 2026, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum publicly unveiled, via his official @SecretaryBurgum account, a Tom Fazio design for the federally led renovation of East Potomac Golf Links, a century-old District of Columbia municipal course. Fazio Golf Design is the firm of architect Tom Fazio, who designed President Donald Trump's Trump National Golf Club Bedminster and has worked on multiple other Trump courses; Trump and Burgum will jointly oversee the East Potomac redesign. The arrangement follows the December 2025 termination by the Trump administration of the National Links Trust's 50-year lease covering East Potomac, Langston, and Rock Creek and a May 2026 National Park Service deal placing the East Potomac renovation under an NPS-led group of public and private partners rather than the NLT.
The Associated Press reported, based on government emails obtained through a public records request, that the FBI's public news releases about Director Kash Patel's August 2025 official trip to Australia and New Zealand omitted both a two-day personal stop in Hawaii on the return leg and a Navy-coordinated "VIP Snorkel" around the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor — a sunken battleship and military cemetery normally closed to recreational diving. Flight-tracking data showed the FBI Gulfstream G550 used by the director remained on Hawaii for two nights during the second stay before continuing on to Patel's adopted hometown of Las Vegas. A Navy spokesperson confirmed the outing but said the service could not determine who initiated it.
