Kristi Noem’s controversial $70 milion luxury jet will remain under the Trump administration’s purview as First Lady Melania Trump will be among those who get to use it.

Some of the President’s Cabinet secretaries will also be allowed to use the aircraft, which was originally purchased to help with Trump’s mass deportation agenda, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

The jet was bought by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and featured a bedroom, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images obtained by NBC News in February.

The aircraft had already been leased by DHS and was used for a recent trip by Noem to Tel Aviv.  

A spokesman for DHS affirmed that the $70 million jet was purchased prior to the confirmation of new Secretary Markwayne Mullin. 

‘This aircraft will be available to Cabinet members who need secure command and control and rapid long-range mobility,’ they added. 

The White House referred reporters to the DHS when asked for comment.  

During its bid to buy the plane, ICE claimed it would be used for deportations and travel by Cabinet officials, including DHS leadership such as Noem. 

But some DHS officials privately expressed concern to NBC about whether the luxury 737 jet was necessary for Noem to carry out the President’s mass deportation agenda. 

When asked how the plane would be used for deportations, a DHS spokesman said ‘at least one of the bedrooms is currently being converted for seating to prepare the aircraft to meet the demands of its deportation mission’. 

NBC’s scoop caused the Republican National Committee to blast the story to the top power brokers and media pundits in the Republican Party. 

That week, the story was sent to an email list filled with some of the most important operators in the GOP, including RNC members.  

‘Knives are out for Noem. They only send out stories they want folks to know about,’ one GOP operator on the RNC’s list told the Daily Mail. ‘They don’t send out every clipping.’

An RNC spokesman, however, downplayed the significance of the story being sent to the narrow email server filled with top officials in the GOP.

‘Whoever this ‘source’ is clearly has no idea how media monitoring works,’ RNC Communications Director Zach Parkinson told the Daily Mail. 

‘The RNC Communications team routinely monitors and alerts all kinds of stories – even fake ones – as it helps Republican communicators push back on legacy media lies.’

‘Secretary Noem and all of President Trump’s appointees at DHS are doing great work and have the RNC’s full support,’ added Parkinson. 

Noem was let go as DHS Secretary on March 5, with Mullin confirmed by the Senate shortly after. 

Political appointees in ICE and the White House initially were not going to purchase the plane but suddenly changed their minds, according to NBC’s report. 

‘That particular plane was a ‘no,’ we weren’t going to buy it. Then all of a sudden, they said ‘yes,” a DHS official said.