The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has suspended payments sent to hotels in New York City lodging illegal immigrants after Elon Musk posted that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered $59 million was sent last week despite President Trump ordering a halt to such transactions.
FEMA Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton announced on X, “I want to thank the @DOGE team for making me aware of this. Effective yesterday these payments have all been suspended from FEMA. Personnel will be held accountable.”
Earlier today, Musk posted on X: “The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. 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.”
None of our agencies are limited and the sprawl is amazing. Congress abdicated its solemn responsibility to oversee its allocation of funds.
There was ALWAYS TWO funds, and these particular funds were promised to these businesses. A promise used to mean something (pre Trump).
How could ANYONE argue with this? Sanity is making a comeback!
You realize that now these american businesses will be the ones hurt right?
The market is going to do what the market does. It’s not our job to prop up dying businesses.
great! then maybe you can get some!
No one elected Elon Musk snd his merry band of doge bags.
We elected Trump and he appointed Elon
You having a bigger problem with that than the fact disaster funds are going to house migrants in luxury hotels explains why your team lost
Edward,
you sound like a taxpayer. I would like to have my tax dollars be allocated properly as well.
Has Elon Musk and has “children” been vetted and approved? The other peons of the government have to. I’m all for accountability, but they have not shown any accountability. You will change your tune when it hits your pocket.
You are so right. These idiots are taking over the government to pay for multi rich families to get a tax cut
Would you change your tune to know the grand total was 80 million that has been paid out for hotels. The total of 237 million is for migrant expenses. If Trump or Elon names wasn’t on the post how would you feel on the expense then. I’m sure the United States citizens in NC would love to have the benefits of that money to put their community back together.
nobody elected Anthony Fauci, George Soros, Bill Gates, Hunter Biden, Amos Hochstein, Ye Jianming or Kamala Harris so why are we complaining about Elon Musk? Funny how the tide has turned and what was once good is now bad, makes me laugh….
He was Elected by the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. PERIOD. LEARN THE LAW AND OUR CONSTITUTION INSTEAD OF TALKING THROUGH YOUR ASS
Anna, By your foolish comment YOU are part of the problem
We the people elected Trump. He selected Musk and was allowed to do that because he is the President the people want! So why don’t you sit back and watch what he is doing to bring our country back to the basics with Common Sence!
The person right below you is arguing against it. she wants our aid money to go to house illegal immigrants instead of go to disaster relief for Americans. make that make sense. and because she listens to mainstream media, she’s been brainwashed to think musk is the enemy here.
Are you a Hotel owner, or are you an illegal alien? I am just a fed up taxpayer. GO DOGE!!!
Do you have something to hide?
Yes we did. This is exactly what they ran on:?? one of the biggest reasons democrats voted for trump. Independents did as well.
Common sense. This fantastic what he is doing with usaid
Quite the idiotic statement from Anna about Musk not being elected. His position is an appointed one no election needed,
@Anna Jackson, @Angelica Borromeo If you are more upset that Elon Musk was appointed by President Trump to head the DOGE and that he has found so much government wasteful spending, fraud, and corruption instead of being upset with the fraud itself, then you people need to get your heads examined! Clear thinking and sensible Americans are happy that our money will no longer go to ILLEGAL migrants and ridiculous government wasteful spending in other countries. More than likely, much of the American people’s money is being laundered and ending up in the pockets of corrupt Democrats and Bureaucrats like Schumer, Pelosi, Waters, etc!
So I guess some folks don’t mind that taxpayer funds are being allocated to ILLEGAL immigrants. Wait until those folks experience a disaster and there aren’t any funds left to help them.
lol. Most government employees are not elected. What post was he to run for?
Are you familiar with the name Anna Dunn? No? Me neither but she was one of Biden’s senior advisers. Did you elect her?
Anita Dunn*
When I think of the citizens of North Carolina NOT getting the help they so desperately needed
And STILL many have not, this article blows me away!!
100% agreed. It is a hideous and purposeful mismanagement of our FEMA tax dollars, and sadly those in NC who also paid taxes too! It’s just mindblowing to me.
I am near the point of not doing business with Democrat agents. The Democrat party is pure, corrupt evil and anyone who is still a Democrat should be seen as such. I am a former Democrat and I don’t want a Democrat anywhere near my family. Anna Jackson, if I knew you, I would get a PFA against you. Democrats are violent, evil people today who are obsessed with harming children and hate America.
Okay, everyone just calm down. Not all Democrats are evil pedophiles, and not all Republicans are mindless morons who drank the Trump kool-aid, obviously. We all need to take a step back and not degrade our fellow Americans AND ourselves over what we can’t control. We lived 4 years under Democrat control, let’s give the Republicans a chance to do their thing. For God’s sake, maybe we should be praying our country will come out of this stronger. Remember when we all had manners?
Super great response amidst the comments. No one is evil just because we don’t agree with their policies. Sheesh! The name calling from all directions is destructive.
We The People must be a bot and cannot be serious.
The US Government through FEMA appeared to be making poor choices on spending public funds. Thank goodness for President Trump who is trying to look in all the dark corners and bring to light all of these poor choices.
Who owns these hotel allowing illegals refuge? Are they getting $$$ from us (tax payers) via USAID / NGO? We know the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC is owned by a Pakistani airline company.
They were getting double the room rent for some reason. It’s another scam and we all are paying for it. I can almost guarantee if you took a vote of all America (sans the illegals), it would be like 95% of people would rather our money go to help American citizens who are suffering first, instead of fancy hotels and double room rates for illegal immigrants. There is a tiny radical group who wants this, I believe we may have some of them on this comment thread ^^lol. And those folks have been brainwashed into thinking we want wide open borders…why?? Because their party wants wide open borders. These individuals don’t know why they want that, they can’t explain it, they can only parrot the stuff they hear on mainstream media. I urge someone in the comments here to explain to us why it is good for America to let everyone in our country unvetted and illegal and spend exorbitant amounts of money (Billions) on them…????!!! Explain it to us dumb redneck republicans so we can understand
Here’s a suggestion: let the hotels send their bills to Joe Biden and his families 22 shell companies with a cc to Hinter Biden, who know maybe one of their finders will pay their bills. 🤣🤣
This is a great thing. I am amazed at the comments in here. If they have a problem with it those who don’t like the decisions made can make a GoFundMe account. Or you can keep them at your own residence. Nobody is stopping you.