Top Trump health official spent $3 million on consultants who helped boost her visibility

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Earlier this year, a top Republican communications operative delivered a plan to boost the profile of Seema Verma, President Trump’s top appointee overseeing health insurance for the elderly and poor. The “Executive Visibility Proposal” was a month-by-month blueprint to have her grant interviews to Women’s Day and other magazines, speak at prominent conferences and appear at Washington’s most prestigious social events.

Marked “privileged, pre-decisional, deliberative,” the eight-page proposal, emailed to Verma’s deputy chief of staff, was part of an unusual campaign carried out by high-paid consultants Verma brought on at a cost to taxpayers of more than $3 million.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-trump-health-official-spent-dollar3-million-on-consultants-who-helped-boost-her-visibility/ar-BBX4lF4?ocid=spartanntp

Wasted tax dollars.

[okaawhatever]

1. Sad. Sad and desperate. nt

[dalton99a]

2. Seema Verma is another corrupt greedy grifter who needs to be exposed.

[delisen]

3. Exploitation of elderly and poor Americans. Disgusting

These people are contemptible. She took three million out of a budget to help elderly and poor people for health insurance and used it to market herself.

Basically a con.

[Skittles]

4. "fiscally responsible"

what a fucking joke

[Tanuki]

5. She had a "guest column" in my local paper earlier this month, which I found odd.

Now it makes sense. It was pure b.s. anyway, claiming that the current maladministration is "making rural health a priority" when they are trying to destroy the ACA.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tennessean.com/amp/2580283001

[tanyev]

6. What, no fake Time Magazine cover?