Vivek Ramaswamy slams NYC’s $220 million deal with Pakistan-owned hotel to house migrants – ‘This is…

Vivek Ramaswamy, co-lead of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has slammed New York City’s $220-million deal to rent the Roosevelt Hotel, owned by Pakistan’s government, for housing illegal migrants. Ramaswamy argued that the arrangement is a misuse of taxpayer money, with NYC residents essentially paying a foreign government to house migrants on US soil.

The hotel, which has been closed since 2020 and was in dire need of renovations, is owned by the government of Pakistan….