What could all these PR hacks be doing every day??? Just how many fawning press releases can anyone write??? They must be the army of internet trolls who descend upon the comments sections of so many MSM articles. Our tax dollars at work!!
Are they including the MSM in the payouts?
How does this compare to past Presidents?
It's why the Media is flipping out - there are starving political consultants outside the doors of the headquarters of the network videobloggers and the journoblogger buildings...
He’s apparently very busy selling his signature brand of corruption to the voters.
Who do you think is directing BLM?
Thank goodness we have the stalwart Republicans in charge of both houses of congress. Otherwise the total could have been a billion or more!
Public relations employees at a half billion dollars to sell his propaganda? Does this marxist/muslim usurper know how to work the system or what? He is far from a "community organizer". He is a full-blown crony marxist/muslim totalitarian.
Easy shutdown for Trump. The other alphabet agencies can easily be reduced, but shut down?
I suspect “PR staffers” is cover for what would once have been called “agents”. “Provocateurs”. “Saboteurs”. “Agitators”. “Minions”.
This is how their minions get paid. Soros gets maximum bang for his buck by passing them over onto the federal budget.
In the old days “agents” were paid by satchels of money under the table. Now you establish a foundation, or charity, or think tank, or PR firm, and all the money funding you is reportable to IRS, its all on the up-and-up. The public org chart looks relatively benign; only Soros knows the real org chart and who is really who.
Corruption on a scale heretofore inconceivable in the highest echelons of government.
Sadly, another 500 million that could be inbound to Iran on a pallet. /s
$500M - Propaganda
Another term that in the context of a political operation means the exact same thing as PR is “propaganda”.
Countless billions spent on propaganda to fool and deceive the American people. That’s what we’re talking about here.
Man, am I naive. What the H are public relations staffers? Why are their any? I can see maybe a staff of 20, but come on, $500 million worth? Further evidence the whole government bureaucracy needs a Trump reset. Trump would fire 90% of them.
Not one penny of that money could be spent without the collusion of Congress.
“President Obama hired hundreds of additional public relations employees to sell his administration’s policies, at a total cost to taxpayers of nearly half a billion dollars a year...”
If the staff was illegally hired or the money illegally spent, Trump can order these fascist drones to repay the federal government (you and me, the taxpayers).
I assume these are public affairs staff in the various agencies. They field calls from the public and press, generate the endless stream of press releases announcing what agencies are doing, prepare annual reports, etc. I don’t know what the appropriate staffing level is; one would need to get down in the weeds, agency by agency, and see what the workload might be. If Obama dramatically increased staffing, I assume this was just one more effort to seed the bureaucracy with reliable leftists, but that said, the work itself is pretty straightforward.
Paul (blank check) Ryan is useless as a Speaker/Congressman.