The most recent audit of the embattled disaster response agency claimed it mismanaged nearly $10 billion during the COVID pandemic between 2020 and 2023.
One week into the Trump administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a directive that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should stop sending money to non-governmental organizations that she characterized as helping “illegal aliens.
“I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem wrote on the social platform X. “FEMA was funding the Roosevelt Hotel that serves as a Tren de ...
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
Luxury hotels in New York City including the Roosevelt, recipients of $59 million from FEMA to house immigrants, were base of operations for Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and served as a residence of the convicted killer of Laken Riley.
FEMA should be terminated. It has been slow and totally ineffective,” Individual states should handle storms, etc., as they come,” Trump wrote on his social media site.
The acting head of the federal agency responsible for responding to disasters says he’s suspending payments sent to New York City to house migrants and that staff who made them will be held accountable.