In a statement sent to Newsweek on Tuesday, Caliburn International confirmed that the company’s leadership had “made the decision to change the venue” of its holiday party so that the festivities could be “focused on the spirit of compassion and thankfulness to our employees who work every day supporting missions of humanitarian service, national security, and medical care around the world.”

The company’s statement was the same message that had been sent out to employees in an email on Monday, according to CBS News.

The holiday party had been slated for December 6, according to CBS, which obtained an invitation outlining the initial plans. Guests had been asked to RSVP by November 19, according to the invite.

Caliburn’s initial decision to hold its holiday party at a Trump golf club reignited debate around whether it is ethical for a government body or contractor to host an event at a Trump property.

The question is one that has repeatedly come up under the Trump administration, with it recently coming to light that the Secret Service had spent more than $250,000 at Trump properties over a five-month period in 2017, while the U.S. Air Force has also faced scrutiny over repeated stops made at president’s Turnberry resort in Scotland.

In a statement posted on Twitter, Noah Bookbinder, the Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), said it was “hard to overstate how problematic it is for a company with billions in government contracts to be paying the president directly.”

Meanwhile, Virginia Canter, the chief ethics counsel for CREW and a former White House associate counsel to both Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, told CBS that she did not believe it was “any small coincidence” that a government contractor would be “patronizing a Trump business.”

“Is it normal in this administration? Yes, but obviously for a contractor that has hundreds of millions of dollars in business before the federal government, I don’t think it’s any small coincidence that they’re patronizing a Trump business,” Canter said. “These facilities are ways for people to influence the administration. So it’s not just buying influence, it’s also buying access.”

As Newsweek has previously reported, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s involvement with Caliburn and its parent company private equity firm D.C. Capital Partners, has also faced scrutiny, with the House Oversight Committee announcing in July that it would be looking into his role.

Kelly had sat on the board of D.C. Capital Partners before joining the Trump administration in November 2017. He then joined Caliburn’s board of directors after departing the White House in 2018.

In an interview with Newsweek, Democratic Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin said Kelly’s involvement did not appear to pass “the smell test.”

“It seems like there’s very little oversight happening on the Trump administration’s part,” he said.

This article has been updated with a statement from Caliburn International.