Democrats are probing companies awarded a $220 million ad contract for ties to Noem, Lewandoski
Source: msn/NBC News
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Democratic senators are probing the three businesses that received a $220 million ad contract featuring outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, asking whether Noem, her senior adviser Corey Lewandowski or any other DHS employee financially benefited from the agreements, according to letters obtained by NBC News.
Sens. Peter Welch and Richard Blumenthal, who is the ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent letters on Friday to Safe America Media, People Who Think, and the Strategy Group, a subcontractor associated with the agreement. The Strategy Group is run by Ben Yoho, the husband of former DHS press secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
In their letters, the senators say that Safe America Media "signed a no-bid contract worth $143 million" and that The Strategy Group was subcontracted as a part of that agreement. The lawmakers in their letter said People Who Think was awarded a $77 million no-bid contract.
Questions about the rush of contracts to vendors outside of the traditional competitive bidding process began to circulate in 2025 and came to a head in Noems hearings this week before House and Senate committees. On Thursday, President Trump announced he had fired Noem, who would leave her role effective March 31 and be replaced by the Republican senator from Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin.
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Link to Senator Welch PRESS RELEASE - Welch, Blumenthal Demand Answers from Companies on Potential Corruption in $220 Million Taxpayer-Funded DHS Ad Campaign
Links to LETTERS (inquiries) (PDFs)
https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Letter-to-Safe-America-Media.pdf
https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Letter-to-The-Strategy-Group.pdf
https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Letter-to-People-Who-Think-LLC.pdf
Emile
(41,909 posts)propaganda films, but no money to shore up social security, or money for our healthcare.
Only a complete idiot would vote for this shit!
Botany
(77,053 posts)Hat @ least 500 $s
Saddle @ least 5,000 $s
Bridle & stuff @ least 500 $s
Chaps, jeans, shirt, & boots @ least 2,500 $s
Horse ??
Horse grooming prior to the video being shot @ least 1,000 $s
Guaranteed she already had the hat, clothes, boots, chaps, gear, and a horse too but what the hell
buy it all new. And no doubt Kristi got to keep it all.
PatSeg
(53,074 posts)like a drunken sailor. We've seen such behavior before with republican appointees, but Kristi has to be the worst.
Did she really think no one would notice? Or that the free gravy train would last forever?
Prairie Gates
(7,857 posts)With the exception, maybe, of Rubio.
They're all crooked as the day is long. Don't look into the contracts at Labor too closely if you don't want to throw an aneurysm.
PatSeg
(53,074 posts)of being president one day.
Trump hires sleazy people, the type most likely to rip off the American people. Criminal types, much like him.
Prairie Gates
(7,857 posts)and is at least somewhat skeptical that MAGA can establish a permanent dictatorship.
That's probably all that's holding him back.
PatSeg
(53,074 posts)He does seem to be saner and more rational than most of the people in Trump's orbit, which makes it harder to understand him going along with all this crazy crap.
Of course, there could be some blackmail on him. Trump and Putin use that a lot to keep people in line.
Prairie Gates
(7,857 posts)Might have to wait until after the accomplices in the West Wing have been deposed, though.