WATCH: Anderson Cooper Melts Down On-Air, Curses At Republican Guest For Fact-Checking Him
On Tuesday, Anderson Cooper nearly lost hold of his mild-mannered facade while battling a Republican guest defending the Trump administration's bid to root
On Tuesday, Anderson Cooper nearly lost hold of his mild-mannered facade while battling a Republican guest defending the Trump administrationâs bid to root waste and fraud from the federal budget.
President Donald Trump and Special Employee Elon Musk joined together on Tuesday to lay out a startling series of findings as part of the Department of Government Efficiencyâs investigation into federal spending. Among them, Musk claimed, is evidence that money appropriated to the Federal Emergency Relief Agency was spent on âluxury hotelsâ for migrants living in New York City.
That $59 million should instead have gone to hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina, former New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu told Cooper.
A heated back-and-forth kicked off after Cooper characterized Muskâs conclusion as not factually accurate.
âSome of the details that have come out, like the $59 million spent on luxury hotels, itâs actually notâ â
âYouâre talking about the FEMA money? The FEMA money that was used for migrants? Thatâs okay now?â asked an incredulous Sununu.
âNo, Iâm not⊠Iâm not saying itâs okay. Donât put words in my mouth,â Cooper responded.
âSo, would you stop that? Stop that process?â
âDonât be a dick,â an exasperated Cooper shot back. âWhat Iâm saying is that the portrayal by him is not factually accurate. Heâs talking about luxury hotels.
âTheyâre⊠you can⊠I- Iâm not as bi⊠look, I was in hurricane Katrina, I saw what FEMA does!â
âUntil he sends you a personal text, I get it,â Sununu appeared to say during crosstalk.
A clip of their exchange ends with Cooper leaning back in his chair, rolling his eyes.
WATCH:
By Wednesday morning, mainstream media outlets were rushing to declare Muskâs summary of FEMAâs spending disingenuous. After he fired four top agency officials for what a spokesperson claimed was âcircumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury N.Y.C. hotels for migrants,â the New York Times wrote that the money in dispute was never meant for hurricane victims.
In 2023, Congress established the Shelter and Services Program to dole out $650 million in grants to groups that helped resettle new migrants amid a historic influx into the United States. Of that money, New York officials have said that $237 million was allocated to help cover part of the cityâs $7 billion tab for settling tens of thousands of new arrivals.
After New York applied for initial SSP grants in April of 2024, $59 million was sent to city officials, $19 million of which was spent on hotels, with the rest on food, security, and other shelters.
Although no money was transferred from FEMAâs disaster budget to undergird migrant resettlement efforts, Musk and President Trump appear to be making the point that the Shelter and Services Program should not have been established to reward migrants who fled to the United States and are now being deported in record numbers.
Earlier in the CNN segment, Gov. Sununu chastised his fellow panelists for doubting the veracity of Muskâs promise to expose all the waste he claims is littering the federal governmentâs budget.
âYou talked about $2.3 billion that was saved last year. These guys are saving $2.3 billion a day,â he said. âYouâre not gonna be satisfied until [Musk] shows up with 10,000 pages⊠itâs all going to come.â
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