The State Department was blowing through taxpayer dollars, like Donald Trump businesses go bankrupt.
Rex Tillerson’s “redesign” of the State Department was just another way to lavish private businesses with $300/hour consultant fees, on the backs of the American taxpayer and produce zero, nothing, nada.
Another grift, of many grifts, from the Trump administration.
That drain in Trump’s Swamp is clogged up big-ly and it’s overflowing, folks.
Now that Tillerson has been fired, the vaunted "Redesign" initiative he launched faces an uncertain future, but at least one clear legacy: around $12 million dollars spent just for private consultants who in some cases charged the State Department more than $300 an hour.
The figures, included in materials obtained by POLITICO and confirmed in part by a State Department spokesperson, have not previously been reported. Most of the money has gone to the consulting firm Deloitte as part of a pre-existing federal contract whose ceiling was lifted to $265 million, an indication of the redesign’s ambitions.
As many as 90 consultants worked on the project, according to one document. Many of the consultants have spent extensive time at the State Department, meeting with top officials, collecting and analyzing data, creating PowerPoint presentations and leading group discussions with skeptical employees.
Tillerson and his top aides "had disdain for the professionals," one former senior State Department official said. "You had years of blueprints for reform developed internally, two QDDR documents, and thousands of career officers and civil servants who crave change and reform and would’ve been thrilled to work on this effort at no added taxpayer expense.”
“Instead,” the former official added, “they chose to lavish money on contractors and consultants who knew nothing about the organization."