Taxpayer millions went to a company that subcontracted with another firm operated by her spokesperson’s husband, records show
Kristi Noem’s $220 million ad spending blitz came under intense scrutiny from both Democrats and Republicans across two days of congressional hearings this week, with the secretary unable to explain how a company connected to her own spokesperson landed a lucrative taxpayer-funded project.
Last year, DHS hired a little-known firm to help produce a campaign that prominently featured Noem herself, including one ad filmed during the government shutdown with the secretary on horseback in front of Mount Rushmore. “Break our laws, we’ll punish you,” Noem says in the ad.
Most of that money — $143 million — went to a company that was created just 11 days before it was awarded the contract. On Thursday, after lawmakers grilled her for answers, Donald Trump said he did not sign off on the campaign.
In her testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, Noem said she doesn’t know where the contractor is based, if the company has even done work for the government before DHS hired it, or how the company ended up subcontracting a firm with direct ties to Noem’s office.
For reference, about $4.5 million would be enough for you to retire right now and have expenses of about $150,000 a year. And that includes inflation.
You would never have to work again.
143m is missing… … Of your taxpayer money.
Let that sink in.
That’s why she was fired, she probably didn’t let Trump dip his beak.
You can tell just by looking at some people that they are dishonest assholes, just by how they dress and present themselves, you can smell this lady coming a mile away, I wouldn’t trust her to not steal the makeup at her Sephora job.
She also took trump’s order to shoot Americans in the face and gave that same order to the masked proud boys on the payroll.
Nuremberg 2 for everyone
No shit they can’t find it. She embezzled the money and hid it for that specific reason.
Just curious, are we blaming the families with $100m net worth for the damage they’re causing, or are we still stuck on billionaires?
¿Porque no los dos?
Because morons think millions of dollars “is not a lot of money.”
Ahh this explains Minnesota. That fraud they were claiming was actually with ICE the whole time. I’m shocked, shocked I tells ya!
“Battered”. I’m tired of these words being used this way. It just gets my hopes up only to be let down that they didn’t mean it literally…
If they meant tempura, then deep-frying, that’d be an appropriate response. But that’s not what happened.
Were you expecting a nice meal of tasty fried noem, maybe with an “Awesome Blossom” and sauce on the side?
I was thinking more along the lines of catching a beatdown but that works too.
get to the bottom of it, they’re not dead
Didn’t this just happen again, but the company was only 8 days old this time?
She’s untrainable. We should take her to the gravel pit.
Considering the amount of publicity conservatives managed to generate around the story of fraud in Minnesota, this should be a like Christmas for the Democrats. It won’t be, but it should be.
Well the DNC certainly wouldn’t want to look rude by politically capitalizing on this, so instead they’ll let us know they’re “deeply concerned” and carry on with their day.
Honestly, they should propose sending ICE to raid and kidnap and terrorize…at Noem’s house(s).
I mean, that was their “logic” on sending in ICE to terrorize an entire city, after all.
So she steals $143m of public money and all she gets is a grilling from Congress.
Fucking weak
Claw it back.
What, no more cosplaying for ICE Barbie? No more bang plane?
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