Elon Musk claimed early Monday that the Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA) despatched a staggering $59 million “LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.”
The world’s richest man claimed in an early morning submit on X that the funneled emergency funds have been “just discovered” by his Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) — at the same time as President Trump known as for an entire overhaul of FEMA that would even see it shuttered.
“Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order,” Musk wrote.
“That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals,” continued Musk, who leads the company tasked with chopping again on authorities overspending.
“A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.”
Final month, President Trump signed an government order to create a council to overview FEMA as he expressed issues over there being “serious concerns of political bias” within the company.
The forty seventh president known as on the council to have its first assembly inside 90 days — saying he expects a report of the findings on his desk inside 180 days of the council’s first assembly.
Days earlier, Trump, 78, appeared alongside still-homeless survivors of Hurricane Helene 4 months after the storm the place he raised the thought of overhauling FEMA altogether.
The POTUS slammed the efficiency of the Federal Emergency Administration Company, saying it was “not on the ball… and we’re going to turn it all around.”
The president then advised a roundtable of federal and native officers that he’ll be “signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA — or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, that FEMA’s not good.”
Certainly, the president stayed true to his phrase.
He additionally accused the company — which is liable for bringing in emergency providers, provides and assist to disaster-struck areas — of bungling emergency aid efforts, including that US states ought to be given federal handouts straight within the wake of disasters.
Over the previous couple of years, funding for the company has soared following a number of high-profile weather-related disasters across the nation.
