Further details about the firings were not immediately released. MORE: Trump’s border czar: ‘If you’re in the country illegally, you got a problem.’ Musk claimed on X that his Department of Government Efficiency “discovered” that FEMA over $50 million to “luxury” hotels for “migrant housing,” and doing so violated the president’s executive order calling for an immigration crackdown. A short time later, acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton posted on X that payments to those luxury hotels had been suspended as of Saturday and “personnel will be held accountable.” Trump echoed Musk’s criticism of FEMA and continued to bash it in a social media post on Truth Social Tuesday. He said that the agency is being investigated due to allegedly mismanaging money and not helping North Carolina; and that the agency should be “TERMINATED.” ABC News’ Justin Gomez, Oren Oppenheim, and Ivan Pereira contributed to this report. FEMA officials fired after Musk claims they paid to house migrants in ‘luxury’ NYC hotels originally appeared on abcnews.go.com.
