House Republicans are looking into nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in taxpayer funds being spent on a Department of Homeland Security ad campaign featuring now-former Secretary Kristi Noem — and are probing her also-ousted top adviser Corey Lewandowski.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) told The Post Tuesday his panel was “already doing a lot of oversight” and had “asked for a lot of things” regarding the $220 million publicity blitz, as well as other DHS spending overseen by Noem and Lewandowski.
“I think Corey had his hands in a lot and probably should not have,” Garbarino said during an interview at the House GOP retreat at Trump National Doral Miami. “We are looking into a lot of contracts.”
Due to a Noem-imposed rule that the secretary’s office had to sign off on all contracts worth more than $100,000, Garbarino claimed a lot of department actions “got bottlenecked” — including disaster relief and other critical funding, even though the purpose of the policy was “to go after waste and abuse.”
There was also a delay in funding contracts to build hundreds of additional miles of a wall along the US-Mexico border, the Long Islander claimed.
