I learned that Trump has fired FEMA's CFO, Mary Comans, along with three others, due to her alleged $59 million payment to hotels in NYC for housing illegal immigrants. Elon Musk criticized this decision, emphasizing that disaster relief funds should not be used for luxury accommodations. Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the terminations, stating they were due to bypassing leadership to make these payments. The firings included the CFO, two program analysts, and a grant specialist.
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NEW: Trump has fired FEMA's CFO Mary Comans after she allegedly paid $59 million to hotels in New York City housing illegal immigrants, according to the Daily Mail.
Three others involved were also fired.
"That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals," Elon Musk said on X, promising to issue a clawback demand.
"Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants," said Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
"Firings include FEMA's Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist."
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Hello, I'm Mary Comans, FEMA's Chief Financial Officer. Welcome to the CFO organization! Our mission is helping people before, during, and after disasters, and your contributions are vital.
Our three priorities are: empowering our workforce, promoting collaboration, and ensuring efficient business processes. We strive for optimal resource use, and each of you plays a critical role. We encourage skill enhancement, whether it's joining the National Response Coordination Center or our financial management cadre.
At FEMA, every employee is an emergency manager. This expeditionary approach offers growth opportunities and ensures we're ready to respond nationally. Regardless of your role, be prepared to support FEMA's mission.
Speaker 0: Hello. My name is Mary Comans, and I serve as FEMA's chief financial officer. It's a pleasure to welcome you to the CFO organization. FEMA's mission is helping people before, during, and after disasters. And I'm excited that you've joined the team and are considering how to further enhance your skills and support the agency and the citizens we serve.
Here in the CFO organization, we have three strategic priorities, build an empowered experience and engage workforce, promote organizational alignment and collaboration, and ensure the business processes across the agency. Our job is to ensure the best use of the resources entrusted to us, and every one of you has an important part in that job. I wanna emphasize the importance of our mission and the part you play in it. We support our employees growth and encourage our team to further enhance their skills, whether it's joining the team in the National Response Coordination Center or being part of the best disaster cadre, our financial management cadre. Your subject matter expertise can be put to good use.
At FEMA, every employee is an emergency manager. This allows our agency to be expeditionary and affords our employees opportunities for personal and professional growth, as well as ensures that FEMA is ready to respond when the nation calls on us to deliver our mission. Simply put, we have to be prepared to deploy and support FEMA's mission regardless of our role or our title. So be ready.
