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Oh yeah, dirty money for very dirty people. Kickbacks is what these people depend on.
We previously reported about how he actually made an $87 million dollar contract to house migrant families in hotels. Jen Psaki was squirming when Newsmax’s Emerald Robinson asked how did they justify putting illegal aliens in hotels when National Guard in Washington, D.C. were previously made to take their rest breaks on the floor of a cold garage.
Turns out there’s even more to the story of the hotel contract, according to the Washington Examiner. The contract wasn’t sent out to bid as is the norm, it was a no bid contract. More troubling, it was a huge contract with an organization, Family Endeavors, who had an official on the Biden transition team, former ICE official Andrew Lorenzen-Strait.
Interestingly, Family Endeavors announced on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, Lorenzen-Strait would become its senior director for migrant services and federal affairs, meaning that he would be the organization’s liaison to the federal government. Then, within two months, Lorenzen-Strait had gotten them the contract.
ICE cited “unusual and compelling urgency” as its reason.
So this is where I have a good question for Joe Biden. If he and his people are claiming it isn’t even a crisis at the border, how can it be an emergency to fit this exception?
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga) who has been asking questions and looking into the deal said that he found it hard to believe that “no other vendors could have been at least considered for the award.” He wrote a letter to ICE that the Examiner obtained.
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We previously reported about how he actually made an $87 million dollar contract to house migrant families in hotels. Jen Psaki was squirming when Newsmax’s Emerald Robinson asked how did they justify putting illegal aliens in hotels when National Guard in Washington, D.C. were previously made to take their rest breaks on the floor of a cold garage.
Turns out there’s even more to the story of the hotel contract, according to the Washington Examiner. The contract wasn’t sent out to bid as is the norm, it was a no bid contract. More troubling, it was a huge contract with an organization, Family Endeavors, who had an official on the Biden transition team, former ICE official Andrew Lorenzen-Strait.
Interestingly, Family Endeavors announced on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, Lorenzen-Strait would become its senior director for migrant services and federal affairs, meaning that he would be the organization’s liaison to the federal government. Then, within two months, Lorenzen-Strait had gotten them the contract.
“Unless certain exceptions apply, an agency must compete the contract,” said Carol Thompson, a partner with the Washington-based Federal Practice Group law firm.
The only exception, Thompson said, was in the case of an emergency, such as disaster relief. In that case, ICE would have to provide a “Justification and Approval” document explaining why it did not compete the contract; a failure to do so would likely result in disciplinary action against the ICE officials who signed the deal, and the contract would be canceled.
ICE cited “unusual and compelling urgency” as its reason.
So this is where I have a good question for Joe Biden. If he and his people are claiming it isn’t even a crisis at the border, how can it be an emergency to fit this exception?
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga) who has been asking questions and looking into the deal said that he found it hard to believe that “no other vendors could have been at least considered for the award.” He wrote a letter to ICE that the Examiner obtained.
“I am gravely concerned given that ICE did not compete this contract award, that this is Endeavors’ first contract with ICE, and that the contract award amount far exceeds any previous award amounts with this organization,” Clyde wrote.
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