Trump fires top FEMA staffer over claim NYC spent $59M on 'luxury hotels' for migrants
Hundreds of migrants wait in the cold outside the immigration office in Manhattan for their appointments on Jan. 31, 2024. Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr.
The Trump administration fired a top FEMA staffer and three others for making what a spokeswoman said were "egregious payments to luxury NYC hotels for migrants," claims city officials have disputed.
The firings came after billionaire Elon Musk, head of a quasi-official initiative to cut federal government, posted using similar wording on X Monday that his team “just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.”
A New York City spokeswoman said in an email the city had received a $59.3 million payment from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to care for migrants, but that it was a reimbursement of money the city had already spent.
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