Thread by @pleasesaveour

What exactly has this monster done for us? She took months to come up with a plan for retirement homes. Now this?

Seema Verma, a member of the coronavirus task force, spent more than $3.5 million taxpayer dollars on GOP-aligned consultants
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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 efforts were steered by Pam Stevens, a GOP comms consultant and former Trump administration official working to raise the brand of Verma, who leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The prices were the amount a consulting company billed the gov for her services

🤬This is the #Swamp

They are among the revelations included in a sweeping congressional investigation chronicling how Verma spent more than $3.5M on a range of GOP-connected consults who polished her public profile, wrote her speeches and Twitter posts, brokered meetings with

high-profile individuals — and even billed taxpayers for connecting Verma with fellow Republicans in Congress.

@SeemaCMS you need to pay back every fuqqing nickel. Are you that pathetic that you needed to pay $13M to bump up your self esteem? FUQQING PATHETIC

"Verma and her top aides abused the federal contracting process to Administrator Verma’s benefit and wasted millions of taxpayer dollars,"
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Thanks for the reminder @Moratel_Entles
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