"I knew mentally I couldn't see him like that. I just… I couldn't bring myself to see Kev in that state after knowing him being fit, strong."
Doge appears to have taken the "total contract value" until 2028 - the end date listed - and subtracted the amount spent so far to get the $2.9bn figure.But the contract was reviewed annually, meaning renewing it until 2028 was not guaranteed.
A source familiar with this contract - who spoke on condition of anonymity - told BBC Verify that Doge's figure is "based on speculative, never-used figures" and that the actual spending depended on how many children were placed at the facility and the services they required."In truth, the government never incurred those costs and could never reach that ceiling amount. The real, documentable savings from early termination were approximately $153 million", they estimated.They say this figure comes from tallying up the $18m per month fixed running costs (for things like staffing and security at the facility) from February - when Doge announced the cut - to November - when the contract was subject to annual review.
They also told us that the site - which closed on the same day as the Doge announcement - never reached its maximum capacity of 3,000 children, and about 2,000 stayed at the Texas facility at its peak, before numbers fell significantly as border crossings decreased.We contacted the Administration for Children and Families and the Department for Health and Human Services which awarded the contract but are yet to hear back.
The second largest saving listed by Doge comes from cancelling a contract between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and an IT company called Centennial Technologies which it claims was worth $1.9bn.
which Doge links to has a total contract value of $1.9bn and all of the other cost fields, including the amount already spent, are for $0.The photos below show a mix of around 260 green and white military tents in an area to the south-west of the overall Guantanamo Bay base on 1 April. But by 10 April many had been removed.
Subsequent lower resolution images show that as of 16 April a total of around 175 tents appeared to have been taken down.It's unclear how many migrants remain at the facility. Stephen Miller - the White House deputy chief of staff - insisted in an interview with Fox News last week that the base remained open and that "a large number of foreign terrorist aliens" were still there.
The White House failed to reply to a request for comment on whether removal of the tents represented a reversal of Trump's plans to expand the detention facility.Despite Trump's pledge to send 30,000 migrants to the base, a US defence official indicated that the deployment to the island was to support a population of 2,500 detainees.