Elon Musk’s DOGE uncovered another huge scandal involving a former ICE employee-turned Biden official.
According to DOGE, the HHS has been paying an empty migrant facility in Pecos, Texas, $18 million a month since March 2024.
The shady deal was brokered by a former ICE employee-turned Biden transition team member.
DOGE said the sketchy contract was terminated, saving taxpayers more than $251 million per year.
Per DOGE:
A former ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021 and helped secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.
As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023.
Since March 2024, HHS has paid ~$18M/month to keep the Pecos facility open despite sitting empty.
With national licensed facility occupancy now below 20%, HHS was able to terminate this contract, saving taxpayers over $215M annually.
A former ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021 and helped secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.
As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020… pic.twitter.com/KacroxqRcl
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 26, 2025
The Justice Department is going to investigate the empty migrant facility’s shady deal with the HHS.
Duly noted. We are on it. https://t.co/ySeo7hXT68
— U.S. Attorney Ed Martin (@USAEdMartin) February 26, 2025
Project Veritas and America First Legal previously broke this story wide open.
/1BREAKING
We just uncovered new documents obtained from our litigation against HHS, revealing how the Biden admin used $2 billion dollars in taxpayer funded contracts to house illegal aliens and enrich a former Obama/Biden admin staffer.
Must-read thread:
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 28, 2023
Former Biden transition official Andrew Lorenzen-Strait was caught on undercover video describing his “corrupt bargain” scheme brokering massive no bid immigration contracts with the HHS.
/2 In 2020, Family Endeavors hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, a former member of the Biden transition team. https://t.co/TlKM45X8d6
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 28, 2023
Shortly after Family Endeavors hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, the HHS awarded it a contract with $530 million.
/3 Shortly after Endeavors hired Lorenzen-Strait, HHS awarded it a single-source, no-bid contract worth $530 million dollars. https://t.co/TP9OcoS75h pic.twitter.com/xvNWx0qSOC
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 28, 2023
According to AFL, the DHS and ICE also awarded Family Endeavors a contract of $87 million.
Family Endeavors had no government contracts before it hired Biden-connected Lorenzen-Strait.
/5 Since Endeavors had no noticeable government contracts before the arrival of a politically connected Biden-admin staffer, AFL opened an investigation to provide the American people with answers into the seemingly corrupt transfer of $600+ million dollars to political allies.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 28, 2023
It was previously reported that the Pecos facility had closed down due to poor living conditions.
This migrant facility housed teenagers and unaccompanied children.
At the end of 2023, CBS reported that the Biden administration “reopened a housing facility for unaccompanied migrant children previously at the center of reports of poor living conditions in response to a marked increase in crossings along the southern border.”
“The U.S. Department of Health of Human Services facility, a former camp for oil workers in Pecos, Texas, officially stopped housing migrant children in federal custody this spring. But HHS reopened the site, which it calls an “influx care facility,” after bed capacity at its traditional shelters dwindled, the U.S. officials said, requesting anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press,” CBS reported in September 2023.
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