Four Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees were fired by Elon Musk for sending $59 million to NYC hotels for immigrants.
“Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants,” DHS officials said in a statement obtained by The New York Post.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people,” the statement added.
The payments were discovered by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during an audit of FEMA.
Musk tweeted about the payments on Monday.
“That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals,” Musk wrote. He promised DOGE would be making “a clawback demand … to recoup those funds” from the hotels in NYC.
Musk said $19 million of the $59 million went for direct hotel costs, while the rest went to pay for catering and security for the migrants.
Cameron Hamilton, FEMA’s acting administrator under President Trump, said that FEMA has suspended all payments to New York City to house migrants, effective Monday, Feb. 10.
