Hello, everyone. It's JVL here with my best friend, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the bulwark.

Guys, last night, Tuesday night, we got word that the Inspector General from USAID had been fired.

We also got word that there was going to be, there were a whole bunch of

firings at the CFPF, CFPB, Consumer Protection Bureau. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Thank you. This is why I was just going to say CFPB.

You would think it's a big Liz Warren Pocahontas stand that you are.

You would know the name of the agency that she manifested.

Yeah.

Well, it was good.

Great while it lasted.

So I, uh, I mean, this is, this is all happening.

And I want to start with another firing that went under the radar.

And I just want to tee this up and then I'm going to throw to you guys.

So the CFO of FEMA was fired on Tuesday.

Why was the CFO of FEMA fired?

Let me read to you from the New York Times report on this. What happened was

this. The firings capped a startling chain of events that began on Monday with an early morning

social media post by Elon Musk, who claimed misleadingly that FEMA had recently spent $59 million

meant for disaster relief to New York City to pay for, quote, high-end hotels for migrants and who called the expenditure unlawful.

New York City officials raced to clarify that the federal money had been properly allocated by FEMA under President Joseph R. Biden last year, adding that it was not

a disaster relief grant and that it had not been spent on luxury hotels. Nonetheless, just two

hours after Mr. Musk's post, FEMA's acting director Cameron Hamilton, announced that the payments in

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