It appears that she is still taking advantage of something where she ought not be. She is fired, after all, and glad we were to see her go. Too bad Mullin is going to be the same or worse. He condones political violence. But we are discussing Noem. My gratitude to Raw Story:
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was hammered Friday after reports revealed that, despite being nearly two months out of the job, she appeared to be using waterfront government housing in Washington, D.C. According to U.S. Coast Guard officials and several sources, Noem was seen using government housing on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB), and residing in a housing unit “typically designated for the commandant of the Coast Guard,” The Wall Street Journal reported. [Subscription required, darnit.]
Oooookay. That takes some balls, but she’s been like that all along. Why are we surprised by this? Has no one kicked her to the curb yet? Maybe she thinks she’s entitled because of her new job title. Who knows? The point is that she’s still living in very expensive quarters and not paying a dime towards housing yet. Shouldn’t she be living somewhere else where she has to pay the rent?
“Hello, [U.S. Coast Guard], we’d like to report a squatter,” reads a social media post from House Homeland Security Committee Democrats, published Friday on X. “So Kristi Noem has a pretend job but a real Coast Guard home and all on the taxpayer’s dime after all the wreckage she’s cost us already?” Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) asked in a social media post on X. Noem was ousted as DHS chief in early March amid reports that President Donald Trump grew frustrated with her leadership, particularly her use of more than $200 million on television ads featuring herself. In the immediate wake of her firing, Trump named her as the special envoy for The Shield of the Americas, a military coalition Trump established the same day as Noem’s ousting.
Hmmmm. Okay, so we’d like to report that a squatter made me laugh. But we actually don’t know if she gets housing for that title. We also don’t know a damn thing about The Shield of the Americas either. Strangely, the other two he fired weren’t redirected to something else, but Gnome still has a government-level-ish job. Something changed his mind after her firing. But then, Trump can be cruel at times, and the other two were faced with ETTD.
And yet, while Noem is 50 days removed from her role as DHS chief, she was reportedly still living in government housing, and housing typically reserved for high-ranking officials. “Kristi Noem got fired as DHS Secretary over a month ago but she’s broke and still squatting in the Coast Guard Commandant’s waterfront mansion at JBAB,” wrote X user “Warren,” a fierce Trump critic and sports commentator, in a social media post to their nearly 23,000 followers. “But sure, tell me again about personal responsibility and how we shouldn’t let working families spend SNAP benefits on a soda.”
SCORCHED. Ooooo “Warren”! This person laid it right out about her. Broke and still squatting. Oh, how the “mighty” have fallen. We didn’t know about the SNAP benefits restrictions. That’s interesting. I might dig around and find out what that’s all about. Noem is broke? Even with her title? I strongly dislike her, as you know, but I wouldn’t have wished for no place to live and no money for living. That’s a bit much. Again, how the mighty have fallen. It’s actually kinda sad.
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