Joe Biden’s administration has wasted more than $50 billion in taxpayers’ money — three times the cost of Donald Trump’s border wall — on top consulting firms since they entered the White House.
A Daily Mail analysis of open-source US government spending data shows the 80-year-old earned the eye-watering sum in just over two years at work.
The numbers may raise the eyebrows of voters in key battlefield states as ordinary Americans face a cost-of-living crisis and an increase in illegal immigration.
It also comes amid a long-running feud between Democrats and Republicans over raising the US government’s $31.4 trillion spending ceiling and budget cuts.
The biggest benefactor among some of the world’s largest consultancies advising the US government is Booz Allen Hamilton.
Trump’s planned border wall was immediately stopped by Joe Biden as he entered the White House. The former president had set aside a whopping $16 billion for his flagship policy.
The data, presented in dollars, comes from the open-source federal website USASpending.gov.
The longtime Defense Department contractor has raked in $26.6 billion in public funds since the beginning of Biden’s presidency.
Last August, it began a four-year, $108.8 million contract to provide U.S. aviation with regular “survival and lethality analyzes” for its Pacific fleet in Hawaii.
BAH CEO Horacio Rozanski received a $11.8 million compensation package last year, according to the company’s filing with US regulators.
A spokesperson for the Virginia-based company did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment. Pentagon officials declined to comment.
Accenture, another major recipient of Pentagon money, has won $11.5 billion in government contracts since January 2021.
Deloitte, a services and consulting firm founded in England, won about one-fifth of its government contracts from the Department of Defense at a cost of $9.6 billion during the same period.
Former Trump administration official Joe Grogan told DailyMail.com that “there is a huge industry around government contracts that has gotten out of hand.
Grogan oversaw $1.3 trillion home health spending during his two-year stint in the Office of Management and Budget.
He served on the body under the former president that investigates how public funds are used until January 2019.
“The knee-jerk response from various government agencies is that we will hire a consultant to tell us what to do instead of figuring it out on our own,” he said.
‘It was like a joke. They gave presentations, often with beautiful PowerPoint presentations,” said the former director of Trump’s Domestic Policy Council. “But you rarely had a plan of action.”
“Having fewer resources can force us to be more focused,” Grogan added. “Government is way too bloated and just has way too many things to do.”
Patrick Hedger, executive director of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, an advocacy group against wasteful government spending, said: ‘Why do agencies with budgets of tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions, need to outsource so much work? It sounds like the taxpayer is getting a bad deal.”
And a Republican source in Congress described the huge sums paid out of the state coffers as “crony capitalism.”
The Trump administration also spent a lot of money on top consulting firms during his four-year tenure as commander-in-chief, spending a total of $66 billion.
But just 20 months into Biden’s first term, it raises the possibility that his administration could spend more on such fees than the real estate tycoon.
On his first day in office, Biden scrapped the nearly $16 billion dollars in funding for Trump’s border barrier, $10 billion of which came from the DoD’s budget.
He denounced Trump’s key anti-immigration policies as “a waste of money that diverts attention from real threats to our homeland security.”
But more than 2.3 million migrants tried to illegally sneak into the United States across the Mexican border, according to US Customs and Border Protection.
That’s more than 1.7 million people in 2021 and just over 450,000 the year before, when much of the world went into lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.
The increase in migrants crossing is expected to continue as a Trump-era dictate that made it easier to boot illegal immigrants expires later this month.
Joe Biden, seen here in January this year, wants to use processing centers in Guatemala and Colombia where would-be migrants can submit asylum applications.
Several hundred thousand migrants have tried to sneak into the United States since Joe Biden became president
Those emergency powers, known as Title 42, stem from a 79-year-old federal law that the former president used from the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
It allows US officials to deport migrants without even considering their asylum applications for public health reasons.
But on May 11, the use of Title 42 will expire, leading southern border states to worry that more people will try to cross the border.
And Raul Ortiz, the chief of US border forces, said on Monday that as many as 22,000 migrants had been apprehended in the past 72 hours.
The issue will be pivotal in swing state Arizona, which narrowly supported Joe Biden in 2020 with 49.4% to 49.1% voting for Trump.
A lawsuit brought by a group of Republican-led states sought to keep Title 42 rules in effect.
The case reached the Supreme Court, but judges declined to hear arguments after the White House vowed to end the coronavirus emergency in May.