WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:
Today, Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and other Senate colleaguesdemandedanswers from Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. KennedyJr. after the Trump administration awarded a no-bid contract to a Trump-aligned law firm with no apparent immigration law experience, allowing themto provide legal services to unaccompanied children in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
"Given the political connections between the firm's senior leadership and the Trump administration, we have concerns about why you sidestepped the competitive bidding process to select this firm to provide legal services for children who ar...