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DOGE says Texas nonprofit with former Biden transition member reaped millions operating empty facility
foxnews.com ^ | Published February 26, 2025 8:17pm EST | By Louis Casiano

Posted on 03/05/2025 8:13:10 AM PST by airdalechief

The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated a contract with a nonprofit that was paid millions each month to operate a Texas overflow facility that sat empty, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In a social media post, DOGE said a former U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021, where they helped the organization 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, the post states.

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Since March 2024, HHS has paid $18 million per month to keep a facility in Pecos, Texas, used for housing for unaccompanied migrant children that was previously at the center of reports of poor conditions.

The payments continued, despite the facility being empty, DOGE said.

"With national licensed facility occupancy now below 20%, HHS was able to terminate this contract, saving taxpayers over $215M annually," the post on X states.

1 posted on 03/05/2025 8:13:10 AM PST by airdalechief
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To: airdalechief

Who cashed the checks or spent the $$?

They need to pay it back.


2 posted on 03/05/2025 8:14:09 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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They need to pay it back.

They need to pay it back with interest while serving a lengthy prison sentence. Maybe at Gitmo.

3 posted on 03/05/2025 8:16:28 AM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, LGBTQs, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, CommucRats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: Jane Long
"They need to pay it back."

They also need to go to jail!

4 posted on 03/05/2025 8:16:58 AM PST by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: airdalechief

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.

pic.twitter.com/KacroxqRcl

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 26, 2025

Family Endeavors Pecos TX

Family Endeavors is led by its CEO, Charles “Chip” Fulghum, who took over the role from Travis Pearson in March 2019.
The organization operates a facility in Pecos, Texas, which has been in the news due to recent federal government cuts and allegations of mismanagement.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.


5 posted on 03/05/2025 8:18:58 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Jane Long

Looks like they didn’t spend much money at all. Had a cash hoard of over $500 million of taxpayer dollars. Probably intended to be another slush fund. They need to return that cash to the treasury. This looks like fraud. “Price gouging”.


6 posted on 03/05/2025 8:19:20 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Perseverando; Carl Vehse

AGREE!!


7 posted on 03/05/2025 8:19:40 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: airdalechief

Gotta hand it to leftists, they know how to maximize corruption. On the one hand they generate mass illegal immigration, while on the other hand they use the crisis as an excuse to fleece half a billion dollars from taxpayers for a scam to supposedly deal with it. And that’s just one scam they were running. The government/country has been full of them.


8 posted on 03/05/2025 8:20:16 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: airdalechief

Thanks to individuals at Department Of Government Efficiency. GREAT work.


9 posted on 03/05/2025 8:22:27 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: airdalechief
On Wednesday, Musk predicted DOGE will reach its $100 trillion spending cut goal if they cut $4 billion per day through September

Math (or editing) is hard.

10 posted on 03/05/2025 8:24:54 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: airdalechief

“”””As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023, the post states.”””


I am busy on other projects at the moment, but it would be good for everybody to see the FORM 990 for Endeavors for past 10 years.

How big was this organization before getting billions from Biden?


11 posted on 03/05/2025 8:26:45 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter (,)
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To: airdalechief

The margins have to be pretty good with an operation like that.

Talk about obscene profits.


12 posted on 03/05/2025 8:35:30 AM PST by alloysteel ( Divergence is not at all the same thing as diversity.)
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To: airdalechief

claw back

the 500m is our money


13 posted on 03/05/2025 8:36:48 AM PST by joshua c
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To: Jane Long

Depends on how the contract was written. If the government was paying to run it but the government never sent any clients, then it’s on the government. If you signed a contract to rent an apartment but you never moved in or moved out but still kept sending the rental payment, it’s not on the apartment owner to send back his check. But it is criminal if it was all a money laundering scam like everything else was under Biden and most likely obamy.

Wonder who ratted them out and does he have protection?


14 posted on 03/05/2025 8:50:17 AM PST by bgill
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To: airdalechief

Pure fraud....the DOJ and FBI should be investigating and handing out indictments


15 posted on 03/05/2025 9:12:01 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: bgill

I still want to know where the (MILLIONS) money went.

Someone had to be cashing in.

Someone needs to go to jail.


16 posted on 03/05/2025 9:23:36 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: airdalechief

Hey an empty facility keeps your overhead down.


17 posted on 03/05/2025 9:56:19 AM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: Jane Long

They SHOULD pay it back but they had a contract that probably didn’t specify whether or not the building needs to be occupied. If there were occupancy conditions in the contract then that’s a different story.

The ones who issued the contract and should have monitored it ought to be in BIG trouble!!! They should at least be fired for extreme incompetence.


18 posted on 03/05/2025 9:58:56 AM PST by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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To: The Great RJ

“””Pure fraud....the DOJ and FBI should be investigating and handing out indictments”””


Add IRS to the list of investigators. When a non-profit files their Form 990, they are subject to an IRS audit.

It would be the height of irony if the 87,000 IRS agents added by Biden were told to audit each of the Non-profit NGO’s who received billions from Biden.


19 posted on 03/05/2025 10:29:26 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter (,)
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To: airdalechief

So why wasn’t the fluffer arrested and held until the money is returned!??


20 posted on 03/05/2025 10:38:37 AM PST by sit-rep
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