(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency fired its chief financial officer and three other employees, accusing them of making “egregious payments” for New York City hotels used for migrants, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on Tuesday.
“DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people,” a department spokesperson said.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday in a Truth Social post that FEMA was under review and investigation, saying that the agency has spent tens of millions of dollars in Democratic areas, disobeyed orders and left North Carolina “high and dry.”
Parts of North Carolina and neighboring states were ravaged in September by Hurricane Helene, a storm that killed more than 200 people.
(Reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Chicago; Editing by Katharine Jackson and Mark Porter)
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