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Trump Stands by Embattled Medicare and Medicaid Chief




Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, requested that taxpayers reimburse her for $47,000 of stolen property, including more than $40,000 of jewelry.











Seema Verma is under fire for seeking taxpayer reimbursement for stolen property, part of a
 series of unflattering reports about her and the president’s other top health official, Alex M. Azar II.

 Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, requested that taxpayers reimburse her for $47,000 of stolen property, including more than $40,000 of jewelry.Credit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times

White House aides said President Trump stood by his embattled Medicare and Medicaid chief, Seema Verma, amid reports that she had requested that taxpayers reimburse her $47,000 for property stolen on a trip, including jewelry priced at more than $40,000.
The reimbursement request, reported in Politico over the weekend, was the latest revelation in a string of reports that have portrayed the upper echelons of the Department of Health and Human Services as divided on policy and personality, and roiled by expenditures that have come under scrutiny.

A particular sore point has been the decision by Ms. Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a trillion-dollar agency within the Health and Human Services Department, to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on contracts with communications consultants, in part to raise her public profile. The contracts are now under review by the department’s inspector general.
A long-simmering rivalry between Ms. Verma and Alex M. Azar II, the health and human services secretary, also burst into the open after Politico and Axios reported that Mr. Trump’s top two health policy officials were mired in dispute.
 



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