Elon Musk Claims FEMA Sent $59M Last Week to Luxury NYC Hotels for Illegal Migrants — But City Hall Says There’s more to the Story; FEMA Employees Fired Over ‘egregious’ $59M Payment for NYC Migrants

Elon Musk claims FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels for illegal migrants — but City Hall says there’s more to the story:

Elon Musk threatened to claw back $59 million he said the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent “last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants” — a claim that City Hall officials rebutted Monday.

The world’s richest man said in an early morning post on X that the funds were “just discovered” by his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — even as President Trump called for a complete overhaul of FEMA that could even see it shuttered.

Trump last month signed an executive order to create a council to review FEMA as he expressed “serious concerns of political bias” in the agency.

Musk’s threat could put Mayor Eric Adams in an awkward position, as Hizzoner has desperately pleaded for funding from the federal government during the years-long migrant crisis that has cost the city $7 billion.

“Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order,” Musk wrote.

“That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals,” continued Musk, who leads the agency tasked with cutting back on government overspending.

“A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.”

City Hall officials told The Post that no one has reached out for action on Musk’s demand.

They also issued a statement denying Musk’s assertions that carefully avoided naming the mercurial billionaire or explicitly saying he was dead wrong.

The hands-off approach to Musk coincided with Adams convening a meeting of his top commissioners to tell them to avoid criticizing Trump in order to avoid putting billions in federal funds for the city at risk, The Post learned.

Only $19 million of the $59 million that Musk highlighted in his tweet will go toward housing migrants in hotels, luxury or otherwise, officials said.

“We have already spent over $7 billion on this crisis alone, and the previous administration committed only $237 million in funding to help house the migrants in our care and for future services,” the City Hall statement reads.

“We have continued to receive previously allocated reimbursements through the past week. We will discuss this matter directly with federal officials.”

Many of Musk’s claims couldn’t immediately be confirmed as the brash Tesla mogul didn’t disclose details about the money in his incendiary screed, which he coupled with a tweet endorsing the firing of FEMA officials who okayed the funds. —>READ MORE HERE

FEMA employees fired over ‘egregious’ $59M payment for NYC migrants:

Four Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees, including a top-level executive, have been fired after sending millions of dollars to New York City to house and care for illegal migrants, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

“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 Post.

The firings, first reported by Fox News, include FEMA’s chief financial officer, two program analysts and 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,” the statement added.

On Monday, Elon Musk, who runs the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), posted on X that his team had discovered that FEMA has recently paid out $59 million meant for disaster relief to the Big Apple for “luxury hotels” to house illegal migrants.

“That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals,” Musk posted on X on Monday — and promised DOGE would be making “a clawback demand … to recoup those funds.”

City Hall quickly denied Musk’s assertations in a statement, without naming the billionaire, insisiting that it has never paid luxury hotel rates for housing migrants and that the money is not a diaster relief grant.

The funds, which city officials said were allocated last year under the Biden administration, were likely sent via the Shelter and Services Program (SSP), which reimburses cities, towns or organizations for immigration-related expenses.

The money is authorized and funded by Congress and is separate from FEMA’s disaster relief fund, which is the agency’s main funding stream to help people and governments affected by disasters.

The DHS — which oversees FEMA — directed Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to transfer $650 million of its FY2024 appropriation to FEMA for the SSP, according to the Congressional Research Service. CBP is also a part of the DHS.

The DHS statement did not elaborate on how the four FEMA employees violated any policies and Trisha McLaughlin, a spokesman for the security agency, declined to answer questions about the payments. —>READ MORE HERE

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