DOGE finds Biden paid a company to operate an EMPTY migrant overflow facility in Texas
The Biden administration reportedly paid a company to operate a migrant overflow facility in Texas that sat empty for nearly a year.
In early 2021, a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors, a nonprofit that provides community services.
After they joined Endeavors, the company suddenly managed to secure a contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide “overflow housing” for illegal aliens.
“As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023,” according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The problem is that ever since March of last year, Family Endeavors’ overflow facility in Pecos, Texas, has remained completely empty. HHS has nevertheless kept paying $18 million a month for the facility.
The good news is that thanks to DOGE’s work, HHS has since terminated its contract with Family Endeavors, thus saving American taxpayers an estimated $215 million per year.
All this comes a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding DOGE’s authority.
“The new order calls for a ‘transformation’ in federal spending on contracts, grants and loans by requiring agencies to create a centralized system to record and justify payments, which may be made public for transparency – an initiative that would be monitored by Musk’s team,” according to The Guardian.
“The order instructs each agency’s Doge team lead to provide monthly reports on contracting activities, including payment and travel justifications. Law enforcement, the military, immigration agencies, and national security-related activities are excluded from the new requirements,” the reporting continues.
The order also instructs every federal agency to treat their credit cards as if they’ve been frozen for 30 days.
“To the maximum extent permitted by law, all credit cards held by agency employees shall be treated as frozen for 30 days from the date of this order, except for any credit cards held by employees engaged in, or charges related to employees utilizing such credit cards for, disaster relief or natural disaster response benefits or operations or other critical services as determined by the Agency Head, and subject to such additional individualized or categorical exceptions as the Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, deems appropriate,” the EO reads.
During President Trump’s first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, he stressed the importance of DOGE’s work.
“We’re cutting down the size of government – we have to,” he said. “We’re bloated. We’re sloppy. We have a lot of people that aren’t doing their job.”
DOGE boss Elon Musk meanwhile passionately defended his agency’s work.
He also defended the email he sent out last week demanding every federal employee reply with a list of five things they’d accomplished.
“I think that email was perhaps interpreted as a performance review, but actually it was a pulse check review. Do you have a pulse?” he said. “And if you have a pulse and two neurons, you could reply to an email. But what we are trying to get to the bottom of is we think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can’t respond.”
“And some people who are not real people… like they’re fictional individuals that are collecting a paycheck… well, somebody is collecting paychecks on a fictional individual, so we’re just literally trying to figure out are these people real, are they alive, and can they write email, which I think is a reasonable expectation,” he added.
As of Thursday, DOGE has saved taxpayers an estimated $65 billion. According to the department’s website, the savings came from “a combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings.”
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