Ron Johnson launches investigation into $600M worth of no-bid contracts given to group with Biden ties; Texas Nonprofit Hires Biden Transition Official – Then Lands Half-Billion Dollar Contract To Manage Border Crisis, and related stories

By admin On Apr 16, 2021

Ron Johnson launches investigation into $600M worth of no-bid contracts given to group with Biden ties:

A Senate Republican has launched an investigation into the Biden administration’s awards of two no-bid contracts for handling migrants, worth more than $600 million, to an organization whose senior director has ties to top Biden officials.

Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Health and Human Services to turn over all emails related to the contracts, as well as “any communications” between and among ICE and HHS employees or representatives of Family Endeavors, the group that was given the two massive contracts.

Johnson, the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, gave the government until April 28 to provide the internal documents.

The Washington Examiner reported late Tuesday that HHS awarded a $530 million contract to house unaccompanied migrant children in Pecos, Texas, after they are initially intercepted by the Border Patrol. The new contract is 12 times greater than the $43 million worth of work that Family Endeavors did in 2018, according to tax documents, calling into question whether the organization is capable of taking on such a significant project as the number of single children crossing the border has grown every month since President Joe Biden took office and stopped expelling Central American children south of the border. —>READ MORE HERE

Texas Nonprofit Hires Biden Transition Official – Then Lands Half-Billion Dollar Contract To Manage Border Crisis:

A Texas nonprofit landed a federal contract worth up to $530 million to manage the influx of migrant children at the southern border – after recently hiring a Biden transition official.

The organization, Family Endeavors, won the no-bid contract just months after hiring Biden transition official, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, as its senior director for migrant services and federal affairs, according to Axios, which notes that the deal is the second largest ever awarded by the agency overseeing the migrant child program. It’s worth more than 12 times the group’s most recently reported annual budget.