Democratic lawmakers are blasting a controversial Gaza aid group funded by the U.S. government for tapping armed members of a motorcycle club that one legislator called an “Islamophobic hate group.”

Sen. Pete Welch, D-Vt., and Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., said in statements that they were outraged that a contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation employed members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club. At least 10 members of the Infidels were employed by the GHF’s security contractor, UG Solutions, according to a recent BBC report.

“It is unacceptable for the United States to fund an organization tied to an Islamophobic hate group.”

“It is unacceptable for the United States to fund an organization tied to an Islamophobic hate group,” Casten said in a statement to The Intercept.

Casten led an unsuccessful push this week to bar government funding for the aid group, and Welch has alleged that its employees may be complicit in Israeli war crimes.

“The U.S. government is sending violent motorcycle gangs to Gaza in the middle of a famine,” Welch told The Intercept in a statement. “The American people deserve answers.”

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and UG Solutions did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday.

The legislators’ concern centers on the Infidels Motorcycle Club. The group has not been publicly designated as an outlaw motorcycle gang or accused of violence by law enforcement, but a

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