Eric Adams to sue Trump admin over revoked $80M in FEMA migrant shelter funding for New York City

Mayor New York City Eric AdamsA democrat plans to submit a lawsuit against the Trump government after the federal government has secretly revoked more than 80 million US dollars for the financing of the city’s migrant accommodation.

The Adams Administration lawyer sent a letter to the city ban on the city ban on Friday, in which the legal department of the city wanted to take legal action until the end of next week to take the FEMA payments of 80.5 million US -Dollar that were returned at the beginning of this week New York Post. Lander runs against Adams against Adams for the mayor of the city in the democratic primary elections in June.

“The legal department is currently designing legal disputes on this matter,” said the Corporation Counsel Mureil Good-Rufant in a letter, the outlet reported.

“We intend to take legal action until February 21, 2025. Since the legal department represents the city of New York on this matter, no approval for the compatroller office is required in order to involve external legal support,” the letter states.

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The letter came after Lander asked the Adams administration to either submit a lawsuit or to approve it, to hire his own lawyers Sue Trump And Elon Musk, who leads the efficiency of the Ministry of Government.

“In view of the severity of the situation, we cannot afford to waste more time. If the mayor preferred to spend his days, who are promoting President Trump’s agenda instead of fighting for New Yorker in a statement on Friday .

“The restoration of these funds is essential, and every action or non-action that the Trump administration allows without consequence would create a dangerous precedent and make our city a goal for the next four years,” he added.

The revocation of the FEMA from the accounts in New York City occurred on Tuesday and was discovered for the first time by Lander the following day.

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“Let us be crystal clear: this is motorway robbery. Elon Musk illegally confiscated the federal funds of New Yorker without legal authority,” said Lander on Wednesday.

Musk claimed that Doge found a Fema payment of 59 million US dollars New York City was used in luxury hotels to accommodate illegal migrants. Trump later repeated Musk’s claim and argued that “more massive fraud” took place.

New York City received two separate grants during the Biden Administration -one for $ 58.6 million and one for 21.9 million US influx of migrants who enter the United States through the southern border.

The payments were made as part of the animal shelter and service program, which the congress supported 650 million US dollars for local governments in the previous year in order to react to the migrant crisis.

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The Fema money financed by the US -COLL and border protection paid 12.50 US dollars per night for each hotel room. The city said most hotels that were housed are not luxurious. The rest of the funds went into safety, food and other services for migrants.

After the Ministry of Justice had instructed the public prosecutor’s office, this happened to drop their federal proceedings against Adams, who had been charged with fraud, bribery and employee of campaign contributions by foreigners. Some have expressed concerns that Adams could be committed to the president because his case was dropped.