Kristi Noem’s National Guard Deployment…

Image: Adam Maida; Shutterstock: The Atlantic. Article by Eric Schnurer, The Atlantic. Defense One – July 13, 2021.

The private sector has long been absorbing duties that belong to the government—and that pattern is intensifying.

The recent decision by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to accept private funding from Willis Johnson, a major Republican donor, to send her state’s National Guard to the Mexican border has been called unprecedented, a conflict of interest, an abuse of public power for personal political gain […]

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