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>Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100,000, did not renew the contra
by duxup 1y ago
>Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100,000, did not renew the contracts until Thursday, five days after the contracts expired.
Your classic manager who feels they are so important that hey HAVE TO be involved in X,Y,Z but they are not a responsible enough person to actually do the job.
- thephyber 1y agoShe was busy with higher priorities this week: https://www.instagram.com/p/DLyjaZ5s51o/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DLyjaZ5s51o/
- arp242 1y agoThere were some dogs that desperately needed shooting?
- AtlasBarfed 1y agoAdvocating for competent governance is partisan! Heck of a job, Brownie
- bb88 1y agoFEMA has "Emergency" in the name. Traditionally, it's supposed to come in when the normal rescue infrastructure has failed, due to earthquake, weather, etc. You're not optimizing for cost here. You're optimizing for reliable emergency management -- and that's going to cost money. If you wanted a different agency, like one that prioritized "recovery after 6 months", well, it would help to inform the nation that FEMA is no longer the nationwide emergency management agency. It's up to the local and state governments.
- scarface_74 1y agoAnd Texas voters overwhelmingly voted for politicians who caused this and still make excuses for these same politicians. I am tired of caring for people who vote for people that harm them.
- cjohnson318 1y agoI thought that there was a bar somewhere, a line that would not be crossed, but there isn't, it's just straight up identity politics, or owning the libs, whatever you want to call it.
- mjevans 1y agoPlease remember to take the statements posters make in the best possible light. My interpretation of such is that they're sick of voters who expect a double standard. Don't do something ''I'' don't like when it helps other people, but when ''I'' need help godspeed.
- DonHopkins 1y agoThe best possible light is that he cares about the lives of the little girls and many others that Trump and Musk and Noem and DOGE killed more than owning the libs and canceling NOAA.
- bb88 1y agoThere has always been a place for emergency management. Just ask Kansas about tornados in the 1960s/70s before the rise of doppler radar. And even after in 2007, there was Greensburg, KS. We can and probably should have arguments about the effective cost of government programs. But Kerr County residents fought hard to not pay $20 per resident (assuming population of 53,000) for a $1M flood warning system. So this is the outcome. And it will cost Kerr County way more than $1M in cleanup.
- jfengel 1y agoAnd they are going to vote for them again. Next November is a million years from now. Though for that matter this will be forgotten by the November.
- mulmen 1y agoPutting this out in the world doesn’t help.
- DonHopkins 1y ago[flagged]
- disposition2 1y agoNoem is the head of DHS. The (acting) head of FEMA, David Richardson [1], hasn’t visited the disaster area and apparently hasn’t made any public appearances for months [2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richardson_(government_official)?wprov=sfti1#Director_of_FEMA_(2025%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richardson_(government_o... 2. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/fema-leader-texas-flooding-00445902 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/fema-leader-texas-f...
- j_w 1y agoYes and FEMA is under DHS.
- KingOfCoders 1y agoI once worked for a company that had a founder who was cancelling all contracts on a yearly basis, including renting the office. They were proud of cutting costs that way. After two times, the property owner said, "Great! I have a company that asked me about the space and is willing to pay much more" and the company of several hundred people had to move on very short notice.
- chris_wot 1y agoDid it survive?
- KingOfCoders 1y agoYes, it was very rich, but it did disrupt operations a lot and the new space wasn't as nice - we moved from team offices to an open layout, with my boss praising the open layout - we then found out he would get a private office.
- rickydroll 1y agoToo bad your boss's office has been infested with crickets https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5C82CY7?pf_rd_r=R91A8JNKAJ387ZZ0TQ2P&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_t=liveDestination&pf_rd_i=video&linkCode=ilv&tag=onamzlukemats-20&ascsubtag=VideoCreatorPortal%3A4fd5b4d2f9a34851830f19c0a0b3de01&asc_contentid=amzn1.vse.video.0a81d82b7c4b46ebbe1cb0d40f0853c9&pd_rd_i=B0C5C82CY7&th=1&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5C82CY7?pf_rd_r=R91A8JNKAJ387ZZ...
- KingOfCoders 1y ago:-)
- 1718627440 1y agoThey could have simply renegotiated the contracts with the same benefits and less negative effects.
- lenerdenator 1y agoSomehow, one of the least unhinged things that woman has ever done.
- booleandilemma 1y agoI call people like this "octopuses". They need to have their tentacles everywhere, need to be involved in everything, no matter how little they're needed.
- Yeul 1y agoThe US has trillions in deficit but she's worried about pennies.
- duxup 1y agoAnd her party is busy digging a much deeper deficit hole. I suspect this kind of personal involvement is just about kick backs / graft.