Donald Trump: And your point is?
It’s not unlike the plot of that Die Hard movie where thieves keep police busy hunting for a bomb in a school while the they rob a federal gold depository. The Musk-Trump cabal has simply started firing federal law enforcement and robbing banks. Both robberies take place in New York City.
New York City officials alleged Wednesday the Federal Emergency Management Agency revoked $80 million in grants from the city’s accounts amid a feud with the Trump administration over the city’s use of federal funds to house migrants—a move the city’s comptroller called “illegal” and “highway robbery.”
“Revoked” is a polite term for “stole.”
Gone is a $59 million grant that the administration challenged earlier in the week and another award for $21.5 million, City Comptroller Brad Lander said. The money was discovered to be missing overnight, and Lander said no one in his office had been aware that the federal government had access to the city’s bank account.
Lander is a candidate for mayor.
The funds in question were appropriated by Congress last year under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The payment was issued through a grant from the Shelter and Services Program, administrated by FEMA and initiated by Congress in 2023 to issue grants to cities and organizations providing services to migrants who had been released from federal custody after crossing the border.
Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, tweeted, “I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels.”
“FEMA deep state activists unilaterally” is propaganda-speak for both houses of Congress and the former president appropriating the funds. Legally.
Experts tell the Times that unless the city’s agreement with FEMA includes a clawback agreement, accessing the city’s bank account and taking the cash “could be illegal” (read: theft). Contracts have been signed; the money has been spent; these payments are legal reimbursments.
Forbes adds:
New York officials pushed back against Musk’s misleading claims and have said hotel fee payments were not made on luxury hotels, with Lander noting in a Wednesday press conference the funds approved as part of FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program have a $12.50 per night limit for migrants.
“Musk’s misleading claims” is polite for more lies and propaganda.