The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly fired four employees in connection with a report that broke Monday revealing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spent nearly $60 million on fancy hotel digs for illegal aliens in New York City last week alone.
Trump-appointed Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk tweeted in a late-night post Sunday that his newly minted government oversight agency found FEMA, the taxpayer-cash-packed federal agency tasked with assisting Americans impacted by disasters, funneled a whopping $59 million to “luxury” hotels in the Big Apple to house illegal aliens border crossers in just the past week.
"The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants," Musk tweeted Sunday.
“That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals,” he added, claiming in his tweet that “Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.”
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Bu Tuesday morning, the Department of Homeland Security had confirmed to Fox News that "four employees are being fired today for circumventing leadership and unilaterally making the egregious payment for hotels for migrants in New York City."
Trump has repeatedly stated his desire to reform or perhaps even eliminate FEMA, which he has rightly claimed is an inefficient system for disaster relief that often spends more time - and money - getting in the way of actual aid than it does helping people in need following an emergency. The agency came under fire in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene last year after it was reported FEMA had spent about $1 billion in “humanitarian aid” for illegal alien border crossers over the past two years.