On Friday, New York City filed a lawsuit against Trump’s administration, asking him to return more than $ 80 million earlier sent to the City through an emergency management agency in the accommodation of migrants.
The lawsuit claims that the funds were previously approved and then paid FEMA, only to be removed from the City Bank’s account on February 11.
The funds were taken away after Elon Musk claimed that the Ministry of Government Efficiency established FEMA in the amount of $ 59 million New York City This was used on luxury hotels to accommodate illegal migrants. Trump later repeated the man’s claim and claimed that a “mass fraud” was happening.
New York City received two separate scholarships during the Biden administration – one for $ 58.6 million and the other for $ 21.9 million – while the city tried to pay migrants, many of whom were sent by Texas officers who were frustrated Biden -A association with the administration of the biden appearance of migrants entering the US across the southern border.
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On Friday, New York City filed a lawsuit against Trump’s administration, asking him to return more than $ 80 million earlier sent to the city via FEMA migrants. Mayor Eric Adams left, President Donald Trump, right and migrants outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, Left | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images, Right | Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images, Inset)
TThe payment was made within the shelter and service program (SPP) that the Congress had approved $ 650 million last year to help local self -government respond to the migrant crisis. There are currently less than 45,000 migrants who are staying in shelters funded by taxpayers in New York, compared to the high 69,000 more than a year ago.
The lawsuit on Friday was filed at the US District Court for South District of New York by the City Lawyer’s Department, which resolves city legal affairs, against President Donald Trump, US Treasury, Federal Emergency Management Agency and US Internal Security Ministry.
The lawsuit accuses the federal government of violating federal regulations and conditions of the SSP scholarship, as well as abuse of the authority and obligations of the Federal Government of conducting congress approved and funded programs.
Elon Musk, advisor to President Donald Trump, leads government efficiency. (AP Pictures)
The lawsuit claims that on February 19, the Federal Government was late that it provided the city a letter of “disrespect” that the city did not identify any disrespect for.
“Instead, he announced” concerns “, which are unfounded and do not align with the way the city managed an unprecedented crisis brought to his threshold,” the law department said.
Citing Government’s actions as “money -catching”, the law department said that the letter “mere coverage” to conceal the real purpose of the Federal Government, which is permanently withdrawing funds because it opposes their use of migrants.
The city wants to make up for funds and seeks a proposal for a preliminary and permanent prohibition and proposal for a temporary restraint order (TR).
New York Mayor Eric Adams Defend and supported a lawsuit in a row of posts on X late on Friday, writing that $ 80 million was approved, paid and then abolished – until the city spent more than $ 7 billion in his own taxpayer to fight the crisis in the last three years.
Mayor Eric Adams said that the City has placed more than 231,000 migrants during the crisis. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images, Left, Fatih Aktas/Anadolo via Getty Images, Right.)
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“We will work to ensure that the inhabitants of our city get every dollar that is owed to them,” Adams wrote in the post.
“No doubt, our immigration system is broken, but the cost of managing the international humanitarian crisis should not predominantly fall on one city. .
Meanwhile, New York supervisor Brad Lander claimed that the suit was created after forcing Adam’s hand on the matter. Adams came under the fire from New York Democrats for his decision to be more cooperated with federal immigration agencies in the arrest of criminal illegal migrants in the midst of the Ministry of Justice’s efforts to reject the corruption charges against him.
“After my office discovered Elon musk And his Doge Goon detachment stole $ 80 million from city coffers, we successfully pressed Mayor Adams to allow city lawyers to sue the federal government to get our money, “Lander said in a statement.
“Attorneys who opposed President Trump and Eric Adams’ agreement deserve praise and we look forward to bringing Donald Trump back the money he stole from New York.”
Lander runs against Adams in the mayoral elections later this year.
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Fox News’ Landon Mion, Maria Paronich and Jennifer Johnson contributed to this report.
