FEMA Diverting $59M to House Illegal Aliens Is ‘Betrayal of Highest Order,’ Lawmaker Says

Elon Musk claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency allocated $59 million last week to house illegal aliens in New York City.  

The Department of Government Efficiency, an agency established to root out government waste, “discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants,” Musk wrote on X on Monday.  

Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., called FEMA’s action a “betrayal” as residents of his state continue to recover from the devastation of last fall’s Hurricane Helene.   

“While North Carolinians are still struggling to rebuild their communities in the wake of Hurricane Helene, FEMA sent $59 million to New York for illegal aliens to be housed in luxury hotels. This is a betrayal of the highest order,” Harris told The Daily Signal.  

“FEMA is not only neglecting its mission to help Americans, but it is blatantly ignoring orders from the president,” the North Carolina congressman said. “The reckless bureaucracy and maladministration of this agency is disgraceful. An immediate and complete overhaul of FEMA is necessary.” 

On Jan. 24, Trump signed an executive order establishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency Review Council to review FEMA’s effectiveness in responding to natural disasters and to recommend needed changes to the agency.  

During a visit Saturday to western North Carolina to see the progress of the recovery efforts and the damage that still remained from Helene, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said major changes may be coming to FEMA.  

The Trump administration may eliminate “a lot of what FEMA is at the federal level and giving the authority, the dollars, and the money to the states so that they can deploy that,” Noem said.

“This task force will be looking at all those opportunities to make sure that those that are closest to these communities have the opportunity to make the decisions in how they respond,” she said.  

Musk claimed that designating millions of dollars to house illegal aliens “violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the president’s executive order,” referring to the president’s order to establish the task force that will review FEMA.  

FEMA “has lost mission focus,” Trump wrote in the executive order, “diverting limited staff and resources to support missions beyond its scope and authority, spending well over a billion dollars to welcome illegal aliens.”  

FEMA money, according to Musk, “is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.”  

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