Elon Musk’s DOGE team busted Federal Emergency Management Agency bureaucrats in the middle of a covert mutiny against President Trump. Despite orders to the contrary from the White House and a revocation of any previous executive authority, FEMA managers directed $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City to house migrants.
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.
I’m not sure Musk is correct about the “money is meant for American disaster relief” part of the statement. Congress created the “Shelter and Services Program” in FY2023 and FY2024 to provide “reimbursements to state and local governments and nonprofits in 35 different communities around the nation, including in the border states of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, and inside the country in Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.” It seems that about $800 million was appropriated for migrant housing in FY 2024 via the Shelter and Services Program ($650 million) and the Destination Reception Act (about $150 million). It is difficult to tell how much remains available in the pot.