DOGE discovered that FEMA sent $59 million to New York City so officials could house illegal aliens in luxury hotels.
You mean FEMA always had money to help those in North Carolina? I’m totes shocked.
Elon Musk wrote on X:
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.
Congress passed the Stafford Act in 1988 allows federal agencies to deploy assistance to state, tribal, and local governments when hit by a major disaster or emergency.
The act defines emergency as “any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President, Federal assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the United States.”
A major disaster is “any natural catastrophe (including any hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, winddriven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, or drought), or, regardless of cause, any fire, flood, or explosion, in any part of the United States, which in the determination of the President causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under this Act to supplement the efforts and available resources of States, local governments, and disaster relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby.”
New York City Hall told The New York Post that the city has only used “$19 million of all $237 million in federal funding that has been awarded to the city during the migrant crisis have gone toward hotels, luxury and otherwise.”
“The $59 million in question appears to correspond with long-expected FEMA funding previously disclosed by City Hall, seemingly undercutting Musk’s insinuation that it was a fresh discovery,” added The New York Post.
Yeah, well, I didn’t know about it. Did you?
Apparently NYC has only received $81 million of the $237 million.
I say cut it off and send the money to North Carolina.
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