Fema -Employees fired after Musk claims they paid to house migrants in ‘luxury’ nyc hotels

After Elon Musk complained about federal expenses for housing migrants in what he called “luxury hotels” housing in New York City, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday that four FEMA officials, as it said, had payments had been fired.

The layoffs include the Agency’s CFO, two program analysts and a grant specialist, DHS said in a statement that felt them “Deep State activists.”

The money came from the FEMA Grant program.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not sit unemployed and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and security of the American people,” the DHS declaration states.

Further details of the layoffs were not immediately released.

Musk claimed at X that his government -efficiency department “discovered” that FEMA over $ 50 million to “luxury” hotels for “migrant housing” and to make the violated president’s executive order called for an immigration crash.

A short time later, functioning FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton on X posted that payments to these luxury hotels had been suspended from Saturday and “Staff will be held responsible.”

Trump repeated Musk’s criticism of FEMA and continued to bash it in a social media post on the truth social Tuesday.

He said the agency is being investigated due to allegedly incorrect management of money and not to help North Carolina; and that the agency should “be terminated.”

ABC News’ Justin Gomez, Oren Oppenheim and Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.