Homeland Security Department She says she has returned $ 59 million in FEMA Funds for Migrants of the New York Hotel, the day after releasing those involved in payment.
“Noem secretary has reduced the fully payment made by Fem Deep State activists unilaterally given NYC migrant hotels,” DHS spokesman told Fox News Digital.
“There will be no penny that opposes the interest and security of the American people,” they said.
Migrants see how to sleep outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on July 31, 2023. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The announcement followed after the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) announced that he had discovered $ 59 million for luxury migrant hotels that flooded the city of the shrine during the recent crisis at the southern border. Elon Musk said the payments were sent in the last week.
DHS announcesD on Tuesday fired four employees “for bypassing the leadership” and paying unilaterally. The shooting includes FEMA -ov CFO, two analysts and experts in Grant.
The use of FEMA for payment associated with immigration has been the topic of controversy in recent months. Financing comes through the shelter and service program (SSP). Congressia was appropriated and Requires fema For the use of funding, it was moved from customs and border protection (CBP). Biden’s administration pushed away last year due to the claim that the funding of the disaster is diverted, noting that the funding has been appropriated by the CBP -UI managed FEMA.
A spokesman for the New York Hall on Tuesday confirmed Fox News that the City had received funds “last week”, which the Bidel administration awarded for the purpose of housing and supporting illegal immigrants.
Of the $ 59.3 million, $ 19 million was for direct hotel costs, while balance financed other services such as food and security. According to the NY City Hall, the funds were not part of the aid for assistance in disasters.
“The previous administration left New York City mostly independently managed the international humanitarian crisis. We took a quick emergency action to accommodate thousands of migrants coming to our city every week – including completely empty hotels – ensuring that no family slept on our streets And that public security of longtime New Yorkers was not endangered, “” spokesman said. “Thanks to our smart crisis management, we have helped over 184,000 migrants leave the city shelter since the spring of 2022, but we are not from the forest yet.”
Homeland Security Secretary Christmas and Border Emperor Tom Homan talk to journalists at the White House, January 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A spokesman said he never paid luxury hotels, that the City had filed for funding in April, and Fema financed last year.
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On Wednesday, NYC supervisor Brad Lander responded to the recall of the funds, saying that NYC “couldn’t understand it”.
“I urge the mayor to immediately conduct legal proceedings to ensure that tens of millions of dollars that Trump and Doge have rightly returned to. If Mayor Adams still be the coach of President Trump, my office will ask to work in partnership with Novo York City Lawyer Department of Conducting Aggressive Legal Procedure, “he said, according to New York Post.
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Mayor Eric Adams later said at X that his office “learned of the Federal Government, which took away more than $ 80 million in grants to apply and awarded in the last administration, but not paid by last week.”
“As we conduct an internal investigation on how it happened, our office was already involved in the white house for compensating these funds and we asked for an emergency meeting with FEMA to try to solve as quickly as possible. Already exploring the various possibilities of litigation,” he said.
