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Kristi Noem: “We had a person that was being paid hundreds of thousands of…”

Featuring: Kristi Noem, Republican | Secretary of Homeland Security, Former Governor of South Dakota | National

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Published | Video Starts at 14:06

And it was a one person that the federal government had contracted with in order to deliver 30 million. And I don't know how they ever expected one person to do that. We had a person that was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to book meetings of less than 10 to 15 people. And with no meetings that we saw that were productive or couldn't be done by sending an email over and over again. We're looking at these contracts and looking at the fact that are they duplicative? (14:06–14:14)

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Asserts that a person was paid a large salary for organizing small meetings.

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