The Trump administration fired the chief financial officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday after she processed payments that had been approved months ago, an analysis by POLITICO’s E&E News shows.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, did not fully explain why it sacked CFO Mary Comans and three other agency employees.
The four were dismissed for “circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants,” DHS said in a statement that provided no other information about any alleged wrongdoing.
The firings occurred the day after Trump ally Elon Musk wrote on X, his social media platform, that he had found FEMA “violated the law” by “sending” $59 million last week “to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.”
