The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
  • etherphon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    16 hours ago

    $220 million for those ads are you fucking serious? Every day it’s more totally wasteful spending to line the pockets of these assholes.

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    22·
    16 hours ago

    This is a large part of why Republicans love “privatizing” government services - so they can then collect bribes and kickbacks from the often nepotistic contractors who get the no-bid contracts.

    And as always, the Trump regime does it more and bigger than anyone ever.

  • 6stringringer@lemmy.zip
    12·
    9 hours ago

    I’m not sure how it’s gonna go down. However it happens, I am absolutely gonna get some of that money no matter how cutthroat it may get. When I cover that sycophantic flappy lipped lady in beef tallow and let some hungry ass Rat Terriers hear the command, we go’n have us some quality reality teevee time!