FEMA's ‘Shadow Administrator’ Was Paid by a DOGE Member's Startup for Months
Court filings reveal that a FEMA contractor, Kara Voorhies, was simultaneously subcontracted by a firm owned by a member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The documents suggest potential conflicts of interest and illegal influence over federal spending operations.
Why it matters
This raises significant concerns regarding the integrity of federal contracting processes and the potential for corruption within the newly formed DOGE initiative.
An outside contractor once described as the “shadow administrator” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was actually working, for at least part of her time in government, for a company owned by a member of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, according to recent court filings.
The filings show that from fall 2025 to spring of this year, Kara Voorhies, a special government employee and contractor whose work at FEMA has drawn scrutiny from Congress as well as the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, was subcontracted by a company owned by Kyle Schutt, a DOGE operative whose own company was contracting with DHS.
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