Eric Adams sues Trump administrator for cancelling $80 million in funding for FEMA Immigration Shelter for New York City

Mayor of New York City Eric AdamsDemocrats are set to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration after the federal government secretly revoked more than $80 million in funding for the city’s immigration shelter.

Adams administration lawyers wrote to city director Brad Lander on Friday, with the city’s legal department planning to take legal action by next weekend, with the $80.5 million FEMA that took place earlier this week. He said his payments were returned. New York Post. Lander is facing Adams in the mayoral Democratic primary in June.

“The Legal Bureau is currently drafting litigation documents on the matter,” the corporation’s lawyer, Mulayle Good Turphant, told Lander in a letter, the outlet reported.

“We intend to take legal action by February 21, 2025. As the Legal Department represents New York City on this issue, the Secretary’s office does not need to attract outside lawyers,” the letter said. I read it.

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The letter came after Lander urged him to file a lawsuit against the Adams administration or allow him to hire his own lawyer. Sweat lamp Elon Musk, the leader of government efficiency.

“Given the severity of the situation, we can’t afford to waste any more time. If the mayor prefers to spend his days moving forward on President Trump’s agenda, rather than fighting for New Yorkers, then legal affairs. The department must allow me to do so,” he said in a statement Friday.

“It is essential to collect these funds, and it is any action or non-action, allowing the Trump administration to proceed without consequences.

The cancellation of FEMA funds from a New York City account occurred Tuesday, and was first discovered by Lander the following day.

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“Let’s be transparent. This is a highway robbery. Elon Musk, who illegally seized federal funds from New Yorkers without legal authority,” Lander said Wednesday.

Musk claimed Doge found a $59 million FEMA payment New York City It was used in luxury hotels to house illegal immigrants. Trump later repeated Musk’s claims, claiming that “massive fraud” was happening.

New York City was awarded two separate grants during the Biden administration. One for $58.6 million and the other for $21.9 million, and the city attempted to pay housing immigrants. An influx of immigrants entering the United States through the southern border.

The payments came under the Shelter and Services program, which Congress allocated $650 million last year to help local governments respond to the immigration crisis.

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FEMA money, funded by the US Customs and Border Patrol, paid a refund of $12.50 per night for each hotel room. The city said most of the hotels used to accommodate immigrants are not luxurious. The remaining funds were directed towards immigrant security, food and other services.

This comes after the Justice Department ordered prosecutors to drop a federal corruption case against Adams, who was charged with fraud, bribery and soliciting campaign contributions from foreigners. Some raised concerns that Adam might be seen by the president as his case was dropped.