Tillerson spent $12M on consultants at State Department: report

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The State Department spent around $12 million on private consultants to help shepherd the agency through former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's much-touted "redesign," according to documents obtained by Politico.

In some cases, the consultants charged the department more than $300 an hour, Politico reported Tuesday. Most of the money went to Deloitte as part of a pre-existing federal contract, the news outlet added.

The value of that contract was raised to $265 million from nearly $140 million, according to Politico. While contract ceilings are often not reached, the move offers an insight into the grand ambitions of Tillerson's proposed overhaul of the department.

Another firm, Insigniam, was hired to survey the State Department's employees around the world about what changes they wanted to see at the agency. According to one document obtained by Politico, the spending on that survey was pegged at $850,000, in addition to travel expenses. Other reports, however, have pegged the cost at more than $1 million.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tillerson-spent-dollar12m-on-consultants-at-state-department-report/ar-AAvuL2T?li=BBnb7Kz

[Me.]

1. They've Been Emptying The Treasury Willy Nilly

with no oversight or responsibility

[bronxiteforever]

2. They would steal the Washington monument if they could.

GOP and corruption are synonymous.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Wow, Insigniam is a pretty small player to be taking on that work.

Wonder what the connection is there.

[HipChick]

4. That's not a lot...I've worked on a many a federal contract..

these are standard rates...

[gratuitous]

6. I wonder what value taxpayers got for this outlay?

No, $300 an hour isn't that outrageous, but what was so out of whack that Tillerson needed to spend $12 million to redesign the State Department? Republicans love to kvetch about "waste, fraud, and abuse," their holy trinity of excuses to cut spending; I wonder if there was any of that going on here?

[NewJeffCT]

5. That way Team Trump has been run

I'm surprised the "consultant" money didn't go to Tillerson's friends and family.

[kairos12]

7. Disaster Capitalism at its finest. Disaster being Drumpt/Putin.

[Achilleaze]

8. $300 an hour! republicans squandering American's hard-earned tax money

freaking KGOP pigs are pissing on American taxpayers.