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The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday that it fired four officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on payments to New York City for paying migrants from home, and also argued that the officials. Has stopped leadership.
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Payment shows from an existing program that was the target of Republican attacks during the 2024 presidential campaign. The Shelter and Services Program is managed by FEMA in partnership with US Customs and Border Protection, to help migrant cities. It is a separate vessel of money related to destruction. In the financial year 2024, Congress allocated $ 650 million for the program, According to the agency.
New York City has been among its recipients since the increase of immigrants in recent years. According to a city hall spokesman, the city received $ 119 million in federal funds, including $ 81 million last week. Some of them went directly to the hotel costs. The spokesman said the city claims 37 million for claims.
“Adams Administration has not received any information or request that asked for any money or about the process behind any claws. An official at the City Hall told CNN that the management funding and more information The White House is in direct contact with the acquisition.
Former Homeland security officials told CNN that the cities usually identify housing and later submit for compensation.
“There is a whole collection of guards around it to ensure that it has been arranged according to the law,” said a former DHS official.
In a statement, a spokesman for Homeland Security said: “Immediately effective, FEMA to stop leading four people’s jobs to unilaterally pay for migrants for migrants to pay immense pay for the NYC hotels Eliminating. ”
FEMA’s chief financial officer, two program analysts and a grant expert were among those who were fired.
CNN accessed the DHS for additional information that the employees did to stop the leadership and if the payment fell into the current shelter and services program.
Homeland security spokesman said more information will be provided when available.
Trump’s team has suggested working with FEMA.
When North Carolina was visiting the floods last month, Trump swimmed FEMA, which he criticized as a slowdown in response to the bureaucratic and its rescue. He advised that he would soon terminate the agency and instead send the states directly to manage their destruction relief efforts.
And DHS Secretary Christie Noim, who has supervised FEMA, told CNN on Sunday that he would support the end of “the way he exists today with FEMA”. –
