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By KATELYN CARALLE, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Donald Trump has dramatically fired officials in charge of finances at the government’s disaster relief agency FEMA after they put up migrants in 5-star hotels.
FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans lost her job after it was revealed the agency paid an ‘egregious’ sum of $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants.
Three others involved in dishing out the shocking payments also lost their jobs, a Department of Homeland Security official disclosed to DailyMail.com.
‘Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants,’ Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
‘Firings include FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist,’ she noted.
Comans and her team are arguably the most powerful group at FEMA as they control its billions of dollars in funding.
FEMA has already been the subject of much anger over its alleged refusal to provide aid to pro-Trump Floridians and North Carolinians hit by hurricanes last year.
The recent firings at FEMA are unrelated to the hurricanes and come after Elon Musk revealed last week the scale of payments made to New York hotels.
Illegal migrants wait outside the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City as they are sheltered there on federal funding
FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans (pictured) lost her job along with three others involved in disbursement of the funds
Musk hinted over the weekend which federal agency his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could shut down next after it eviscerated USAID last week.
President Trump’s billionaire ‘first buddy’ has been on a rampage with his new-found power over the U.S. government.
He revealed on X that DOGE discovered FEMA sent $59 million to hotels to house illegal immigrants in the Big Apple – directly against Trump’s orders for such funding to stop.
Musk demanded FEMA, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), take action to get the money back.
‘Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order,’ Musk wrote on his X platform on Monday.
He added: ‘That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals!’
Assistant Secretary McLaughlin said that her boss, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, would continue to take action to make sure Trump’s orders are being followed by her department and the agencies that fall beneath it.
‘Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people,’ McLaughlin said in a statement provided to DailyMail.com.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) emerged as next on chopping block for firings and cuts when Elon Musk targeted them on X for going against President Trump’s orders to pause any spending that goes against his executive orders
FEMA was at the center of controversy last year when it was also excoriated for an overall slow and underwhelming response to the deadly and destructive hurricanes that hit the Eest Coast.
Marn’i Washington was a FEMA supervisor who claims she was fired as a scapegoat because the agency claimed she was independently instructing workers in Florida to avoid surveying streets known to be more supportive of Trump.
Washington told DailyMail.com she has ‘information that proves FEMA is lying’ and that the agency told workers to avoid more ‘hostile’ areas in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton in Florida.
She claims FEMA also told workers to not approach homes with Trump signs in North Carolina.
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