DOGE's next target revealed after $59 million spent to put illegal migrants in luxury hotels

Elon Musk hinted Monday greeting astatine which national bureau his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could unopen down adjacent aft shuttering USAID past week.

President Donald Trump's billionaire 'first buddy' has been connected a rampage with his newfound powerfulness implicit the U.S. government.

He said that his DOGE squad recovered retired connected Monday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sent payments of $59 cardinal past week to luxury hotels successful New York City to location amerciable immigrants.

Musk is present demanding that the agency, which falls nether the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), propulsion a clawback demand. 

It's unclear if the request volition beryllium met, but if it is, FEMA would beryllium capable to recuperate the millions successful already-distributed funds.

'Sending this wealth violated the instrumentality and is successful gross insubordination to the President's enforcement order,' Musk claimed connected his X level connected Monday.

He added: 'That wealth is meant for American catastrophe alleviation and alternatively is being spent connected precocious extremity hotels for illegals!'

The national authorities nether erstwhile President Joe Biden faced backlash for lodging migrants successful hotels alternatively than spending the wealth connected apprehension and deportation efforts. The past medication besides spent funds connected providing different assistance to amerciable immigrants, including giving them compartment phones. 

FEMA falls nether the purview of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's agency.

The erstwhile South Dakota politician said Sunday that if Trump asked her astir FEMA, she would urge that helium 'get rid' of the agency.

It comes conscionable 1 week aft the thousands of employees with USAID (United States Agency for International Development) woke up to emails past Monday instructing them to enactment location due to the fact that the Washington, D.C. office were shuttered.

Others were shocked to find themselves locked retired of their enactment systems past week – and those overseas were told that question backmost to the U.S. would beryllium arranged wrong 30 days.

FEMA could beryllium adjacent connected the chopping block, but it raises interest for those who are disquieted Americans faced with emergencies and earthy disasters volition nary longer person much-needed authorities assistance erstwhile they're successful these situations successful the future.

'If the president came to you and said, you're my DHS secretary, bash you deliberation I should get escaped of FEMA, what would you say?' CNN big Dana Bash asked during an interrogation connected State of the Union connected Sunday.

'I would say, yes, get escaped of FEMA the mode it exists today,' Secretary Noem replied.

'We inactive request the resources and the funds and the finances to spell to radical that person these types of disasters similar Hurricane Helene and the fires successful California,' she somewhat walked-back. 'But you request to fto the section officials marque the decisions connected however that is deployed, truthful it tin beryllium deployed overmuch quicker.'

'We don't request this bureaucracy that's picking and choosing winners,' the DHS Secretary said.