‘Just Unacceptable’: Bipartisan Senate Report Criticizes HHS Over Shelters for Migrant Children

A month after the Senate issued a bipartisan report flagging oversight failures by government contractors that house migrant children, the Biden administration awarded new contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to two of those organizations. 

Awarding of the contracts prompted particular concern from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee. 

“The fact that taxpayer money keeps flowing without any guarantee of reforms or commitments to improving facility oversight from [the Department of Health and Human Services] is just unacceptable,” Grassley told The Daily Signal in a statement late Friday.  

Grassley worked with committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on a reportreleased Oct. 28 that details allegations of child abuse at federally funded facilities and substandard protections provided for children who illegally entereed the country by crossing the southern border.