FEMA CFO fired over payments to New York City for migrants says she had DOGE sign-off

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: March 6, 2025 / 9:05 PM EST


A former government official who says she was falsely accused of illegally sending funds to New York City to book luxury hotels for undocumented migrants — and then publicly ridiculed and fired — said Thursday that just days earlier she had been directed by a member of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, to make the payments.

Mary Comans, who was the chief financial officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, sued the agency and the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, on Tuesday.

"I was fired illegally by the Trump administration for doing my job, for doing exactly what I was directed to do by the Trump political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security and at the DOGE," she told CBS News in an interview Thursday. "They told me to do these actions, to make these payments, and then they fired me." A DHS spokesperson did not respond for comment, nor did Brad Smith, the DOGE official Comans says she interacted with.

The lawsuit argues she was "unlawfully terminated" from her position "without cause or the due process required by law and the Constitution." As chief financial officer, Comans was a member of the "senior executive service," the highest-level civil servant. The lawsuit alleges that DHS and FEMA publicly disclosed information about her termination that was protected under the Privacy Act and that she was defamed by the false portrayal about her conduct. At the time of her dismissal, Comans says the agency suggested falsely in a press release that she was a "deep state activist."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mary-comans-fired-fema-cfo-musk-doge-migrants-new-york-city/

[DiamondShark]

1. K & R

[hadEnuf]

2. Good. Sue the living shit out of them and scream it from the rooftops.

This is Stalin and North Korea type shit without the executions. For now.

[NotHardly]

13. THIS

[Tanuki]

3. I hope someone is keeping track of how much

taxpayer supported time and money is being wasted mounting the Trump regime's legal responses to being sued over improper and illegal firings and other interference with government functioning. It will probably exceed any "savings."

[tanyev]

4. Interesting. I hope she's got the proof to back it up.

[oasis]

5. Unlikely she would arrange such luxurious

accommodations without written authorization.

[GiqueCee]

7. And Motel Six...

... might be stretching the definition of "luxury" a bit too far.
And if they did specify such accommodations, it was because of its headline value when they turned the tables on her.
What utter filth they are. But then, they're fucking Republicans, so it's to be expected. And they're PROUD of their treachery!

[Fla Dem]

6. She was probably set up.

[NotHardly]

14. She was set up. Period.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Sounds like a major lawsuit is going to happen.

[royable]

9. Who owns the hotels? Was someone getting a kickback while she's getting fired?

[DENVERPOPS]

10. There is a developing pissing contest

between Trump and Musk........Musk has definitely gotten Putin's attention, and better at destroying the U.S. than Trump, all to please Putin.
At this point, Trump is totally threatened by Musk upstaging his position of being Top Dog, and Putin kicking Trump to the proverbial CURB and putting Musk in charge. If that happens, Trump better say away from high rise windows, and employ a food tester with a geiger counter......

[Martin Eden]

11. I suppose our tax dollars are paying for government lawyers to fight these lawsuits

Can we summarily FIRE THEM??

[Baitball Blogger]

12. So they fabricated their own story of migrants being put up in luxury hotel?

The same way Don Jr. went to Greenland to pay homeless people to wear MAGA hats?

He has turned us worse than a third world nation.

[republianmushroom]

15. Trust the convicted felon or his flunky ?

Crazy.