President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to build a temporary pier in the Mediterranean Sea to provide another way to get humanitarian aid into Gaza, despite concerns expressed by some U.S. Agency for International Development staffers, according to a report from the group’s inspector general.

Biden announced his decision to order the construction of the pier in his State of the Union address in March to increase the amount of humanitarian aid that was getting into Gaza and into the hands of Palestinian civilians in need. But, he made that decision despite USAID staff members expressing “concerns” that doing so would “detract from the Agency’s advocacy for opening land crossings, which were seen as more efficient and proven methods of transporting aid into Gaza,” according to the new report released this week.