Trump Administration Paid Firm Nearly $14 Million For Just 2 New Recruits
And the company used government resources to do even that, concludes Homeland Security's inspector general.
By Mary Papenfuss, Huff Post USA
The
Trump administration paid an astonishing $13.6 million to an outside contractor this year to increase border protection staffing, but that effort has resulted in only two new job offers, according to a
scathing report by a federal watchdog that called for “immediate” action to rectify “serious performance issues.”
U.S. Customs and
Border Protection granted Accenture Federal Services a $297 million contract last year to boost staffing by thousands in the wake of President
Donald Trump’s crackdown on the border and immigration. The company is “nowhere near satisfying its 7,500-person hiring goal over the next 5 years,” declared the report
The firm has already been paid $13.6 million. But when the inspector general audited the company’s actions, it discovered that as of Oct. 1 — more than 10 months into the contract — Accenture had successfully processed only two accepted job offers. In addition, it did so largely using CBP resources instead of its own, the report said.