The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now investigating a Texas-based company that employs a former Biden transition team member after being awarded a multi-million dollar contract. The company called Endeavors won a more than half-billion-dollar contract to help ICE house migrants in hotels after crossing the border. The formal title of the probe is, “ICE’s Contract to House Migrants in Hotels.”

Fox News reports:

On January 20th, 2021, the very day President Joe Biden took the oath of office, Endeavors put out a news release announcing the hiring of Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, a former Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official who also served as a Biden transition advisor on Homeland Security issues.

Less than two months after Lorenzen-Strait’s arrival, federal records show endeavors entered into a no-bid contract with the Department of Health and Human Services for up to $579 million and another no-bid with Homeland Security for $87 million.

“This is a no-bid contract, and those should be used in only the most extraordinary circumstances,” said Tom Jones of the American Accountability Foundation, a conservative-leaning watchdog organization. “It’s typical and it’s terrible. Both sides do it. It’s why we have a massive budget deficit and a debt going through the roof…There’s scumminess and swampiness on both sides of this but we need to root that out.”

Endeavors declined to answer questions about the contracts but in a statement to Fox News called Lorenzen-Strait “a valued leader on the Endeavors team. He is a recognized expert in migrant child and family welfare who consulted with a variety of for-profit and nonprofit organizations after he left his career in federal government in May 2019”

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra over concerns regarding the no-bid contract. During Trump’s presidency, Democrats frequently cried out against no-bid contracts.