Elon Musk: “New York sued the federal government to get the money [for…”

“It's true. Yeah. That's a fact. Fact. They literally, like, when we stopped that payment, we stopped all those money because that's obviously an insane way to spend taxpayer money. New York sued the federal government to get the money [for luxury hotels for illegal aliens]. So you could just look at their lawsuit. They were sending that money. Even after President Trump signed an executive order saying it needs to stop, they still Press send on $80 million to luxury hotels in New York.” (1:06:40–1:06:45)

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