Dem 報告（する）／憶測: Medicare 長，指導者 used fed money to 支える image
WASHINGTON (AP) - 私的な 顧問s to the 連邦の 公式の／役人 who 監督するs Medicare 法案d taxpayers almost $6 million in いっそう少なく than two years to 支える her personal image, 含むing 成果／努力s to 勝利，勝つ awards, place her on 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）s of powerful women and arrange 会合s with 影響力のある people, a 報告（する）／憶測 by congressional 民主党員s said Thursday.
The 顧問s, many with 共和国の／共和党の Party 関係, 法案d taxpayers up to $380 per hour on work 大部分は 目的（とする）d at polishing the profile of Medicare 行政官／管理者 Seema Verma, the 捜査官／調査官s wrote.
One 請負業者, Pam Stevens, who´s done 広範囲にわたる work for the GOP, 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d up to $330 hourly to 追求する ideas like asking 出版（物）s 含むing "Oprah Magazine" and "Garden and Gun" to 令状 articles about Verma. Stevens also seemed to 法案 at least $1,117 to arrange an interview that resulted in a Verma profile in AARP The Magazine, the 報告（する）／憶測 said.
The 請負業者s were "厳選した" by Verma's 補佐官s, the 報告（する）／憶測 said, creating "a 影をつくる／尾行する 操作／手術" that sidelined the communications staff of the 連邦の 中心s for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The 顧問s' work often had nothing to do with running Medicare, Medicaid and other 大規模な health programs that the 機関 operates, said the 56-page 報告（する）／憶測, which was 支援するd by over 1,700 pages of 文書s. Verma has run the 機関 since 2017.
"議会 did not ーするつもりである for 行政官／管理者 Verma or other 上級の CMS 公式の／役人s to use taxpayer dollars to 備蓄（する） CMS with 厳選した 顧問s or 促進する 行政官／管理者 Verma´s public profile and personal brand," the 報告（する）／憶測 said.
FILE - In this July 24, 2020, とじ込み／提出する photo 行政官／管理者 of the 中心s for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during an event with 大統領 Donald Trump to 調印する (n)役員／(a)執行力のある orders on lowering 麻薬 prices, in the South 法廷，裁判所 Auditorium in the White House コンビナート／複合体 in Washington. 私的な 顧問s to the 連邦の 公式の／役人 who 監督するs Medicare 法案d taxpayers almost $6 million in いっそう少なく than two years to 支える her personal image, 含むing 成果／努力s to 勝利，勝つ awards, place her on 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）s of powerful wome n and arrange 会合s with 影響力のある people, a 報告（する）／憶測 by congressional 民主党員s said Thursday, Sept. 10. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, とじ込み／提出する)
"Given the 無謀な 無視（する） she has shown for the public´s 信用, 行政官／管理者 Verma should reimburse the taxpayers for these 不適切な 支出s," it said.
A Health and Human Services Department 公式の／役人 called the 報告（する）／憶測 a "political smear" by "far left 政治家，政治屋s." The 声明 by Michael Caputo, the department's assistant 長官 for public 事件／事情／状勢s, did not 否定する any of the 報告（する）／憶測's 明確な／細部 findings.
"This is just another 無謀な, 政治上 timed, 運動-by 攻撃する，衝突する 職業 on a 改革（する）-driven Trump 行政 公式の／役人 and, by 拡張, on 大統領 Trump himself," Caputo said. He said Verma "will continue the 行政´s 前例のない success transforming the American healthcare system."
The 報告（する）／憶測 解放（する）d Thursday was 用意が出来ている by the Democratic staffs of two 上院 and two House 委員会s. The 視察官 general of the Department of Health and Human Services, of which Verma's 機関 is a part, 問題／発行するd 類似の findings in July.
Thursday's 報告（する）／憶測 said that besides burnishing Verma's image, the 顧問s took the lead fashioning 機関 communications 戦略s and had 接近 to 極度の慎重さを要する 内部の （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） that could 影響する／感情 財政上の markets.
Marcus Barlow, a 顧問 who'd 以前 worked for Verma at a 会社／堅い in Indiana, 法案d the Medicare 機関 for hours 類似の to those of 十分な-time 労働者s and had 決定／判定勝ち（する）-making 力／強力にするs over some 連邦の 労働者s, the 報告（する）／憶測 said.
顧問s arranged for 私的な 会合s between Verma and hosts of 保守的な Fox News and editors of Woman's Day and Women's Health Magazine, the 捜査官／調査官s wrote.
One 覚え書き 示唆するd 捜し出すing to land Verma on Washingtonian magazine's 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of Washington's most powerful women.
Another 文書 示すd 請負業者s 法案d at least $13,000 to 申し込む／申し出 Verma's 指名する for awards and to 参加する in other events.
There was also an 入ること／参加（者） for nearly $3,000 for a "Girl's Night to 栄誉（を受ける） the 行政官／管理者," held at the home of Susan Page, USA Today's Washington bureau 長，指導者.
Page wasn't aware that Verma's 機関 was 法案d for the event, and 本人自身で paid more than $4,000 for its costs without reimbursement, USA Today said in a 声明. The news organization said the Girl's Night events have been held for years, with 新聞記者／雑誌記者s 栄誉（を受ける）ing 政治家，政治屋s of both parties.
The 報告（する）／憶測 said Verma brought 顧問s with her on 公式の／役人 travel, even when 政府 補佐官s were there, 運動ing up taxpayers's costs. In one instance, Verma took a three-day trip to California, …を伴ってd by three 機関 補佐官s 加える four 顧問s who 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d up to $310 hourly for some of that time.
Verma worked on health 問題／発行するs under 副大統領 マイク Pence when he was Indiana 知事. She 衝突／不一致d with 民主党員s as part of 大統領 Donald Trump's team when he unsuccessfully tried 廃止するing former 大統領 Barack Obama's health care 法律.
