Government contractor who received $179M in federal contracts buys VP Vance's home for $170K over asking

Christopher Garcia, CEO of Health Supply US which has received $179 million in government contracts primarily from Defense and Homeland Security, purchased Vice President JD Vance’s Alexandria, Virginia home on March 14 for $1.9 million—$172,025 over the $1.69 million asking price. Garcia, who served as a Trump Commerce Department appointee from 2017-2018 and later registered as a lobbyist, bought the property through Nevada LLC 9 EDR just five days after it was listed. Vance had purchased the five-bedroom farmhouse for $1.64 million in February 2023. The above-market purchase by a government contractor with extensive federal business raises conflict of interest concerns.