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‘CLAWED BACK’: Feds recover $59 million after ‘egregious’ payment for illegal aliens in luxury hotels

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President Donald Trump and Kristi Noem (Courtesy Kristi Noem)

President Donald Trump and Kristi Noem (Courtesy Kristi Noem)
President Donald Trump and Kristi Noem

Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has confirmed the return to the federal government of $59 million that workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency has dispatched to New York City for the benefit of illegal aliens it is housing.

The decision to send the money violated President Donald Trump’s orders against fraud and misspending by the federal bureaucracy and four workers at FEMA were fired for their actions.

Fox News reports DHS has confirmed it has “taken back” the money.

“Secretary Noem has clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” a DHS official said.

The $59 million was identified earlier this week by the Department of Government Efficiency, which said the money was improperly sent for payments to luxury hotels for illegal aliens who have flooded into the sanctuary city.

DHS said the workers who issued the “egregious” payment were fired for “for circumventing leadership.” They included the organization’s chief financial officer, two analysts and a grant operator.

City Comptroller Brad Lander responded with a demand that the money be sent again.

“I call on the mayor to immediately pursue legal action to ensure the tens of millions of dollars stolen by Trump and DOGE are rightfully returned. If instead Mayor Adams continues to be President Trump’s pawn, my Office will request to work in partnership with the New York City Law Department to pursue aggressive legal action,” he claimed.

Mayor Eric Adams said he’s asked for an emergency meeting with FEMA.

FEMA works with Customs and Border Control to dispense money to the Shelter and Services Program, which provides housing and other benefits for illegal aliens released into the United States.

This was an exploding program under Joe Biden’s administration, which allowed millions of illegal aliens to cross into America under his open borders agenda.

As part of that, his administration reportedly lost track of hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children., too.

President Trump already has instituted a number of program changes to crack down on illegal immigration, and to round up known criminal illegal aliens and deport them.

“These funds have been misappropriated going back to the Biden administration and New York City – a sanctuary city – has been wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money to provide free housing, clothing, food, education and healthcare to illegal immigrants, including criminal aliens that are here illegally,” charged, Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y.

“That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals,” Elon Musk, who heads Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, said. “A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.”

Musk noted, “Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order. That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.”

Biden embedded throughout the government multiple ways for tax money to be spent on illegal aliens after they break the law and enter the U.S. without permission. One of Trump’s agenda points is to eliminate that spending.

‘Gross insubordination’: FEMA workers fired for sending $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City

WATCH: Karoline Leavitt severely spanks major news agency for intentional deception

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The White House is lit in red, white and blue, Friday, July 26, 2024, in support of Team USA at the Summer Olympics in Paris. (Official White House photo by Abe McNatt)

The White House is lit in red, white and blue, Friday, July 26, 2024, in support of Team USA at the Summer Olympics in Paris. (Official White House photo by Abe McNatt)
(Official White House photo by Abe McNatt)

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has publicly explained why two Associated Press reporters were denied access to White House events: Their organization is pushing a “lie” by continuing to refer to the body of water off the coast of Louisiana as the Gulf of Mexico.

President Donald Trump, on his first day in office, ordered it renamed the “Gulf of America” and that was done for official government references. Apple and Google also have made that change.

But AP, claiming that it needed to make its references easily recognizable for all audiences, said it would not change, although it would note Trump’s announcement.

AP, which has held dictatorial power in journalism for decades by assembling and distributing its own journalism stylebook, which often has moved into advocacy for leftist ideals in recent years, released a statement from spokeswoman Julie Pace, who said, “It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.”

Leavitt explained how that thinking was faulty:

Asked about the barred reporters, she said, “First of all, let me just set the record straight. It is a privilege to cover this White House. It is a privilege to be the White House press secretary. Nobody has the ‘right’ to go into the Oval Office and ask the president of the United States questions. That is an invitation that is given.”

She noted, “There are hundreds of outlets on this campus, many of you in this room, who don’t have the privilege of being part of that pool every single day, and getting to ask the president questions.

“We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office.”

She then was asked about the reasons.

“I was very upfront in my briefing on day one that if we feel there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable,” she said, “It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America. And I’m not sure why news outlets don’t want to call it that, but that is what it is.

“The secretary of Interior has made that the official designation, Apple has recognized that, Google has recognized that. Pretty much every other outlet in this room has recognized that body of water as the Gulf of America. And it’s very important to this administration that we get that right, not just for people here at home but for also for the rest of the world.”

Trump’s agenda, of course, is the Make America Great Again plan, and his design is to promote the presence of America, and its influence, everywhere.

AP itself reported two reporters were turned away from different events on Tuesday.

The agency reported Tim Richardson, of PEN America, claimed that the decision was “an affront to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which bars the government from impeding the freedom of the press.”

Also putting itself in an antagonistic position to Trump, the White House Correspondents Association, a private organization that imposes its ideologies on seating charts at White House press events, called it unacceptable.

While news organizations may say denying their access to the White House is a First Amendment issue, that question is cloudy, as they are among the few – out of thousands of news organizations nationwide – that have been given that access as a privilege. The decision actually imposes no control over what that reporting agency writes.

Of course, Trump’s renaming of the gulf does not necessarily affect what other nations may label it.

WATCH: Karoline Leavitt holds White House news conference

WATCH: Democrats line up behind new talking point in campaign to undermine President Trump

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Elon Musk and his son, X, join President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025 (Official White House photo)

Elon Musk and his son, X, join President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025 (Official White House photo)
Elon Musk and his son, X, join President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025 (Official White House photo)

Democrats are lining up behind a new talking point to undermine President Donald Trump’s agenda to clean up the federal government, eliminate waste and fraud, and focus on projects and costs that are in the nation’s national interests.

Through his Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, already has moved to cut thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in spending.

Which has triggered Democrats, whose favorite constituencies sometimes are losing their funding. They now are calling it a “constitutional crisis.”

Trump mocked the claims, assuring listeners that he has not plans to ignore court orders regarding his executive decisions: That he’ll make the decisions, then appeal adverse decisions by local judges and get those overturned on appeal.

After all, he said it is his practice to follow court orders. Unlike Joe Biden, who openly boasted of defying a Supreme Court ruling he could not transfer student loan debt from the borrowers to innocent taxpayers, and then doing so.

The Washington Examiner reported Trump said, on the topic of the court orders delaying his agenda, “I always abide by the courts, and then I’ll have to appeal it.”

The problem he cited, however, is that the lower court judges are slowing down the process and that “gives crooked people more time to cover up the books. You know if a person’s crooked and they get caught other people see that, and all of a sudden, it becomes harder later on.”

He cited Paul Engelmayer, a judge who has temporarily foiled DOGE’s access to TRreasury Department information.

Vice President JD Vance has pointed out that it’s illegal for a judge to interfere in the duties of the executive branch.

Trump explained, “I would hope that a judge, if you go to a judge and you show them, ‘Here’s a corrupt situation. We have a check to be sent, but we found it to be corrupt. Do you want us to send this corrupt check to a person, or do you want us not to give it and give it back to the taxpayer?’ I would hope a judge would say, ‘Don’t send it. Give it back to the taxpayer.’”

Vance charged, ““If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

Democrats routinely accuse Trump of ignoring court decisions, a situation that has yet to develop.

The “constitutional crisis,” Vance has explained, could actually be something not of Trump’s making.

“If the elected president says, ‘I get to control the staff of my own government,’ and the Supreme Court steps in and says, ‘You’re not allowed to do that’ — like, that is the constitutional crisis. It’s not whatever Trump or whoever else does in response. When the Supreme Court tells the president he can’t control the government anymore, we need to be honest about what’s actually going on,” Vance has said.

Fox News reported that contributor, and constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley “was left bewildered after a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order Monday blocking the Trump administration’s buyout offer to federal employees.

He explained that as being “perfectly within the wheelhouse of the president.”

“The report said, “The legal group Democracy Forward sued on behalf of labor unions representing thousands of employees, claiming the administration can’t administer payments. In a letter to its members, the AFGE noted that the buyout offer doesn’t guarantee that the employee’s resignation will be accepted or that the benefits will be paid.”

It also claimed the offer violates federal law.

Trump, in an Oval Office comment, said, “Any court that would say that the president or his representatives, like secretary of the treasury, secretary of state, whatever, doesn’t have the right to go over their books and make sure everything’s honest — I mean, how can you have a country? You can’t have anything that way. You can’t have a business that way. I hope that the court system is going to allow us to do what we have to do. We got elected to, among other things, find all of this fraud, abuse, all of this, this horrible stuff going on. And we’ve already found billions of dollars. … And when you get down to it, it’s going to be probably close to a trillion dollars.”

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‘No more lives should be lost!’ Trump reveals Putin’s agreement to negotiate for end to Ukraine war

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President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)
President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social statement, has blasted to pieces the Joe Biden practice of giving massive billions of dollars to Ukraine to pursue its half of the war with Russia, by announcing he’s discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin ending the conflict.

And the negotiations, in essence, are to begin immediately.

Trump had campaigned on the promise of ending the violent and costly war between Russian and Ukraine. Joe Biden had authorized sending some $66 billion to Ukraine, more than one-third of what the entire world had offered Ukraine.

Trump announced he discussed the war with Putin and they agreed to “work together, very closely” to end the fight.

Vladimir Putin (Video screenshot)
Vladimir Putin

Trump said he immediately would talk with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the progress.

Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s special Russia-Ukraine envoy, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, are to meet later this week at a conference where Zelenskyy also will attend.

Trump’s comments came only moments after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a NATO conference that some of Ukraine’s aspirations, including NATO membership, simply are not realistic.

And he said American funding is dropping, meaning security guarantees for Ukraine will have to be funded by European countries.

Trump’s statement said, “Just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects. We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering, that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we, likewise, lost so many!

“We each talked about the strengths of our respective Nations, and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together. But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine.

“President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, “COMMON SENSE.” We both believe very strongly in it. We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other’s Nations. We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now.”

Trump said Rubio, Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, and Ambassador and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will be working on the deal-making.

“I feel strongly, will be successful. Millions of people have died in a War that would not have happened if I were President, but it did happen, so it must end. No more lives should be lost! I want to thank President Putin for his time and effort with respect to this call, and for the release, yesterday, of Marc Fogel, a wonderful man that I personally greeted last night at the White House. I believe this effort will lead to a successful conclusion, hopefully soon!”

CBS reported that Hegseth’s earlier comments explained security guarantees are needed for Ukraine, but they “should not be provided through NATO membership, but must instead be backed by capable European and non-European troops.”

Hegseth had explained that Ukraine’s call for returning to its pre-2014 borders wasn’t a likely outcome.

And he said there will not be U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine.

And he told leaders Europe should “provide the overwhelming share of lethal and nonlethal aid to Ukraine,” which means they should increase their defense spending.

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