Before leaving the Trump administration, Zachary Fuentes was a deputy to John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Trump’s second chief of staff.
WASHINGTON — A leading Democrat on the House Oversight Committee asked an inspector general on Tuesday to investigate how a former deputy chief of staff to President Trump received a multimillion dollar contract to deliver respirators to a Native American community hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Connolly said that such an investigation would likely be conducted by his own subcommittee and House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., who is heading a new coronavirus oversight committee. According to ProPublica, “247,000 of the masks delivered by Fuentes’ company — at a cost of roughly $800,000 — may be unsuitable for medical use. An additional 130,400, worth about $422,000, are not the type specified in the procurement data.” Information on the allegedly faulty masks provided by Zach Fuentes LLC was made available to ProPublica by the Indian Health Service, which oversees health care on Native American lands.
A frequent critic of President Trump who represents a vigorously Democratic swath of the Washington suburbs in northern Virginia, Connolly asked Grimm if she would investigate how Fuentes, despite his lack of experience in the field, had such an easy time winning such a large contract. Before leaving the Trump administration, Fuentes was a deputy to John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Trump’s second chief of staff. His insistence on chain of command protocol rankled some Trump loyalists who liked the president’s freewheeling style. That made Kelly’s top deputies, including Fuentes and Kirstjen Nielsen, who later went on to head the Department of Homeland Security, unpopular with some White House staffers.
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