Elon Musk announced the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified an unauthorized $59 million allocation by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the lodging of migrants in New York City hotels.
“The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants,” Musk wrote on X this morning. “Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order. That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.”
Last month, President Trump signed an executive order creating a council that would review FEMA, noting there were “serious concerns of political bias” within the agency. He later added the executive order was designed for “fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, that FEMA’s not good.”
Musk did not go into specifics on the allocation of funds, including which FEMA official authorized the transfer and which hotels received the federal money.
Photo: New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel, which became the centralized intake center for the waves of illegal immigrants being brought into the city. Photo by Billy Hathorn / Wikimedia Commons
Kristi Noem took ovr FEMA and was responsible for also isuing an order to not pay any bills more than ?…how did she mss this? What other agencies does she supervise that need to be told the same thing. Instead she is ridingaround on horses….and I like her and I am a serious conservative….c’mon Kristi…do your job…Dave
oh God. Didn’t we address this during the last hurricane? THERE ARE SEPARATE FUNDS used for natural disasters. FEMA doesn’t mix the two so NO disaster victim was affected. CALM DOWN ELON!
BUT, should we be paying 50+ Million dollars a month to house ILLEGAL immigrants? That is the true question. That money may be in a different fund via FEMA, but I would rather see the folks in North Carolina receive this than a luxury hotel. Anyone should have that same opinion, and if not, why? What would be your reasoning to give money to house illegal immigrants rather than United States citizens? Please tell me.
Good CALL $$$..MAKING PROGRESS
Is this what you call journalism? It looks like you wrote up a bunch of unsubstantiated allegations and are attempting to pass them as verified facts. Without data or documents this is nothing more than a gossip piece with a political agenda.