FEMA is terminating four employees who circumvented leadership to make payments for migrant housing in a New York hotel, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed.
“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’s Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
It was also noted that the firings include FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts, as well as a grant specialist.
“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,” McLaughlin added.
The news comes one day after Elon Musk, heading up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), announced that they uncovered the $59 million payment — made last week — sent by FEMA to house migrants in luxury hotels in the Big Apple.
In 2022, the Biden administration authorized the FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program to respond to the migrant crisis. While former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre continued to deny that the Biden administration was using FEMA funding to support undocumented migrants, she was caught contradicting herself throughout her tenure.
This came to a breaking point last year after former DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas asserted that FEMA was running out of money to help Americans in need — such as those recovering from Hurricane Helene — despite the government spending millions on illegal migrants.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds — FEMA does not have the funds — to make it through the season,” Mayorkas said at the time.
This also comes on the heels of President Donald Trump signing an executive order titled “COUNCIL TO ASSESS THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY,” writing that FEMA has “managed to leave vulnerable Americans without the resources or support they need when they need it most.”
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