Taxpayers footed $3K bill for "Girl's Night" in honor of Trump's top Medicaid official

[essentialsaltes]

$2,933 for ‘Girl’s Night’: Medicaid chief’s consulting expenses revealed
Seema Verma, a member of the coronavirus task force, spent more than $3.5 million taxpayer dollars on GOP-aligned consultants, a congressional report found.

When Seema Verma, the Trump administration's top Medicaid official, went to a reporter's home in November 2018 for a "Girl's Night" thrown in her honor, taxpayers footed the bill to organize the event: $2,933.

When Verma wrote an op-ed on Fox News' website that fall, touting President Donald Trump's changes to Obamacare, taxpayers got charged for one consultant's price to place it: $977.

And when consultants spent months promoting Verma to win awards like Washingtonian magazine's "Most Powerful Women in Washington" and appear on high-profile panels, taxpayers got billed for that too: more than $13,000.

The HHS IG already found that this money was mishandled.
Inspector general: Medicare chief broke rules on her publicity contracts
HHS watchdog finds Seema Verma mishandled millions of dollars in federal contracts that ultimately benefited friends, former Trump officials.

 

[DaisyDay]

Is this the most corrupt administration to date?

 

[SimplyMe]

How has the HHS IG not been fired yet?

 

[Hank77]

Conservative values are only for other people not for up and coming GOP appointees.
Cutting Medicaid for the poor while spending millions on one's own career. I guess they have to find some way to pay for it.

 

[essentialsaltes]

How has the HHS IG not been fired yet?

There has only been an acting one since June 2019. Two different ones. But Trump has nominated a different person to be the real deal.

"On May 1, the White House announced that Jason Weida was being nominated as permanent HHS Inspector General"

 

[cow451]

Is this the most corrupt administration to date?

A poster would not date anyone in this administration due to philosophical differences.

 

[iluvatar5150]

A poster would not date anyone in this administration due to philosophical differences.

Which is too bad because they've often taken the FoxBabeNews approach to casting hiring, IYKWIM.

 

[cow451]

Which is too bad because they've often taken the FoxBabeNews approach to casting hiring, IYKWIM.

A poster should look more closely.