Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security just fired the officials and agents in charge of finances at FEMA.
FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans lost her job after it was revealed the agency paid $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants.
the agency paid $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants
Wow!!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fema-halting-payments-migrant-housing-new-york-after-118670265
Here’s a link stating that:
- Musk has not shown evidence of this.
- The money is not from the disaster relief fund.
- The “luxury hotel” part is worded to drive hate when in reality average costs that the organization pays, by deals where it does not need pay full rates, is $152/night.
- The costs include other things like security, and only $19mil was related to direct payments to hotels.
- If you see anywhere Musk’s Tweet where he emphasizes “LAST WEEK” please bear in mind that the action of getting reimbursed happened then but the money covers Nov. 2023 to Oct. 2024.
The nuanced truth is, of course, of a different sort than the over-simplification.
If you look deeper you’ll see it’s only a partial truth, like most things political. The individual pieces are truth, the whole is not.
What’s the rest of the story?
That $59 million was spent on housing immigrants. Of which SOME of the money was for luxury hotels. I have not seen an actual amount specified.