Dan Friedman Bio Dan Friedman is a senior reporter in Mother Jones' DC bureau. Latest Work Unraveling the Corporate Ties to DHS's “Big, Beautiful Jet” The luxury 737 that recently ousted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem flew on is connected to a DHS contractor who received “an appearance of favoritism.” March 10, 2026 By Nick Schwellenbach and Dan Friedman Border Czar’s Former Clients Cash in on Trump’s Immigration Crackdown “So we’ve been trying to get access to Tom Homan…” December 8, 2025 By Dan Friedman, Russ Choma, and Nick Schwellenbach Massive DHS “Self-Deportation” Contract Challenged as Secretive and “Unlawful” The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges. October 10, 2025 By Dan Friedman and Nick Schwellenbach
Unraveling the Corporate Ties to DHS's “Big, Beautiful Jet” The luxury 737 that recently ousted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem flew on is connected to a DHS contractor who received “an appearance of favoritism.” March 10, 2026 By Nick Schwellenbach and Dan Friedman
Border Czar’s Former Clients Cash in on Trump’s Immigration Crackdown “So we’ve been trying to get access to Tom Homan…” December 8, 2025 By Dan Friedman, Russ Choma, and Nick Schwellenbach
Massive DHS “Self-Deportation” Contract Challenged as Secretive and “Unlawful” The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges. October 10, 2025 By Dan Friedman and Nick Schwellenbach
