The workers are accused of circumventing leadership to make the transaction.
President Donald Trump's aide Elon Musk posted on X that his team had discovered payments used to house migrants in “luxury hotels” with money intended for disaster relief. Musk blasted the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA), which is part of Homeland Security, and called the payments “gross insubordination.”
The terminated employees were FEMA's chief financial officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist, a Homeland Security statement said.
The employees made “egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants,” the statement said. “DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people.”
Reports say the funds transferred to New York totaled $59M with critics saying that money should have been sent to North Carolina where people continue to suffer from the devastating impact of last year's hurricane damage.
