DHS Ad Investigation Reveals Thousands Spent on Horse, Hair, Makeup

So $380K in production expenses. Where's the other $200M ??

A scandal like this for any other admin would be monumental and dominate headlines. If it was a Dem, Fox News would be endlessly screeching about it for months, if not years. For the Trump admin? It's a weekday.

Where do you even get horse makeup?

All I really care about is what she bought at the "magic store".

The entire Trump administration…the textbook definition of FRAUD, WASTE & ABUSE.

Invoices for the Department of Homeland Security ad campaign that heavily featured now-ousted Sec. Kristi Noem reveal the department spent thousands on a horse rental, hair and makeup services, along with more than $100,000 in labor costs and more than $40,000 in other vendor costs, according to information first shared with NOTUS on Monday by Democratic senators. Other expenses included: $20,000 for a horse rental, $3,781 on hair and makeup services, $107,405 on labor costs for The Strategy Group, $52,599 for videography, photography and production vendors, $500 at a magic store in South Dakota, and $42,853 for other vendors. Full story: [https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/dhs-ad-investigation-reveals-thousands-spent-on-horse-hair-makeup](https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/dhs-ad-investigation-reveals-thousands-spent-on-horse-hair-makeup)

Ok, you had me at magic store. We need a FOIA request on that receipt.

I mean... she's odd looking with all that work, but to call her a horse?

MAGA just helping themselves to YOUR money America.

That's a nice picture of the horse. The hair and makeup didn't fool me.

> Other expenses included: $20,000 for a horse rental, $3,781 on hair and makeup services, $107,405 on labor costs for The Strategy Group, $52,599 for videography, photography and production vendors, $500 at a magic store in South Dakota, and $42,853 for other vendors. > Wouldn't be surprised if that that $3,781 in makeup was spent on the lead trollop alone.

I mean they did wonders tho! They really made that horse look like Kristi Noem. I thought it's really her.

I don’t like Noem but it’s not really okay to refer to her as a horse. Plenty of other things to attack her on

She has a long face, but I wouldn’t call her a horse.

I read the headline as ....***horse hair and makeup***... and thought "*She's pretty fuggly, but I'm not sure I would call her a horse*." Now, won't someone please get that puppy killer a salt lick and a Botox injection?

So how much was spent on the horse makeup?

That’s a lot of money just for South Park to mock the shit out of your appearance

This disgusting bag of shit. The entire administration needs to be prosecuted. Top to bottom of the barrel everyone in this regime is ripping the country off.

Are you sure it wasn’t spent on making HER look like a horse?

You all are focused on the wrong thing. This is how ad agencies work (I know because I used to own one and spent many years in the industry): Usually the way it works is: \- A company sends Request for Proposals (RFP) to multiple ad agencies, describing their goals and budget \- Ad agencies come up with a pitch on how to best use that budget (creative, messaging, targeting, etc.) \- Company chooses a w***** \- Ad agency develops the campaign and executes around it \- They take fees as a % of the budget (sometimes fixed fees but usually %) So, let's use assume, with positive intent, a common scenario for the average company: \- A company spends $200,000,000 on an ad campaign \- An agency may take 10-30% as a fee (depending on how much $ is being spent, how badly they want or need the business) \- The remaining money is spent on production costs and the actual ad buy The \*majority\* of the money is the ad buy. So let's say $200 million. Cut away 30% for the fee. That's $60,000,000. Budget: \- 139 million for ad spend \- 60 million for fees \- 380k for production costs The 139 million for ad spend--whatever, you can easily spend that kind of money for reach. Ad spend is extremely expensive. That's TV ads, Internet ads, billboards, etc. Whatever. In this scenario, we know that the "ad agency" though is her friend. So you guys are focused on 380k, but you should be focused on the 60 million. In fact, we don't even know if the fee was 30%. What if it was 60%? And they spent 40% on actual ads? Because this was given to her friend--and no competition involved, he could have charged her whatever right? That's them pocketing money. Is he cutting her a check in some other way? Stop fighting over the makeup and the horse. It's a lot of money but who gives a f***. Go find out how much her friend pocketed and follow that money.

No amount of money is going to hide that ugly.

Damn ICE Barbie... You spent that much on yourself and STILL look like a totally piece of filth. Wow!

I'm wondering if the 'magic store' is like a Spencer's or something similar, given the rumors going around about her plane incident. (Where she had that meltdown at an Air Force pilot over a misplaced bag, bag supposedly contained items of an intimate nature/related to her fling with Corey Lewandowski). 

Fiscal responsibility my ass

Horses do require proper upkeep. What did she spend on herself?

Presumably she thought she could save money by just shooting the horse later.

Which one is the horse?

Where was DOGE when we needed it.

Horse makeup is a thing?

i'd complain, but, i've had to spend a lot of money on horsehair plaster

I'm willing to let the magic store expense slide.

Get rid of those pesky commas and we got ourselves a real headline.

Horse makeup, that tracks

Ain’t nobody shocked really.

They have to use horse makeup on her instead of the human stuff? Honestly not shocked.

Sounds like theft to me.

Imagine spending that much on looks and still looking like a below average scarecrow.

More like horse hair and makeup

Devereux Wigs - our wigs aren’t made from hair off dead horses

Will this refund be added to the $5,000 checks or the $2000 checks?

I mean they had to make Noem look presentable somehow...

She was cos playing the whole time.

Horsehair makeup?

lol. A signing bonus for a sole source contract that went to her friend?

Costs a lot to look that c****…

She should ask for a refund

Is that what that wig is? Horse hair? Is she like one of those witches from the movie, Witches?

Well no shit. 

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