ToplineCenter for Medicare & Medicaid Services Director Seema Verma spent government funds on high-priced Republican consultants to raise her personal political profile, an investigation conducted by four Democrat-controlled House committees found. President Trump today removed the independent chairman of a committee tasked with overseeing the roll out of the $2 trillion coronavirus bailout package. Key BackgroundCMS suspended its contracts with the consultants in April 2019 after news reports brought them to public attention. That’s how much consultants working directly with Verma were paid, out of a total of $6 million paid by CMS to consultants between June 2017 and April 2019, according to the report. The bulk of that, nearly $3 million, went to DC communications firm Nahigian Strategies.

Source: Forbes September 10, 2020 16:30 UTC