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Horizon cutting-room links: Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Horizon cutting-room links: Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Today is Wednesday, 2 April 2025. At the Horizon, we covered Guantánamo’s $40 million price tag to house under 400 migrants and the Pentagon’s accelerated cuts to its civilian workforce, among other stories and protests. Here are your cutting-room links. “New Defense Department experimentation series targets data integration,

Senators slam $40 million Guantánamo migrant detention as wasteful and legally questionable

Senators slam $40 million Guantánamo migrant detention as wasteful and legally questionable

A Senate delegation is calling on the Trump administration to end its Guantánamo Bay migrant detention program, labeling it an “unsustainably expensive” misuse of military resources after the Pentagon revealed the operation has cost $40 million in just six weeks, reports the New York Times. The operation, established in February,

Pentagon’s border mission spending surges past $300M

Pentagon’s border mission spending surges past $300M

The Trump administration’s military deployment to the southern border has already cost more than $328 million, according to sources briefed on internal Defense Department data—even as the White House pushes to cut the overall defense budget by 8 percent. As reported by CNN, the costs, disclosed in a