The senior FEMA official is dismissed on payments for migrant shelters in New York

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it had dismissed four employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the agency’s financial director, about their roles in the disbursement of federal funds to accommodate migrants in the hotels of New York.

The layoffs crowned a surprising chain of events which started on Monday with a social media position early in the morning by Elon Musk who wrongly said that FEMA had recently sent $ 59 million intended for help in the event of Catastrophe in New York to pay “Hotels Hotels” for migrants, and who qualified illegal expenses.

New York City officials ran to specify that federal money had been properly allocated by FEMA under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. last year, adding that it was not about ‘A rescue subsidy in the event of a disaster and had not been spent on luxury hotels.

Nevertheless, just two hours after the post of Mr. Musk, the acting director of FEMA, Cameron Hamilton, announced that the payments in question “have all been suspended” – even if most of the money had already been disbursed – and that “the staff will be held responsible. “”

Tuesday morning, around 24 hours after Mr. Musk’s position, the Trump administration had followed part of its commitment.

Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Department of Internal Security, which oversees FEMA, said that the four employees had been dismissed “for bypassing leadership to unilaterally make flagrant payments for luxury hotels in New York for migrants ».