A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program that paid $59 million to house illegal immigrants at a New York City hotel was originally established to help at-risk homeless people and the needy.
The payment was publicized as an example of government waste by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk.
“That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals!” Musk stated in a Feb. 10 post on his social media platform X.
The Trump administration clawed back $80 million in FEMA funding from New York City after the DOGE discovery—prompting New York Mayor Eric Adams to sue the federal government to recover the money….