The Department of Homeland Security directed millions of dollars from a $220 million border advertising campaign to a Republican consulting firm closely linked to Secretary Kristi Noem and her senior aides, while concealing the firm's involvement behind a newly formed shell company, according to a ProPublica investigation.
Records show that the Strategy Group — a firm central to Noem's 2022 gubernatorial campaign and run by the husband of Noem's current DHS spokesperson — produced the agency's Mount Rushmore ad in October, despite not appearing anywhere in public contracting disclosures.
