DHS clawed back the money last month after firing four FEMA staffers for sending $59 million to New York City hotels housing illegal immigrants.

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Federal Emergency Management Agency doesn’t need to immediately return more than $80 million that it took away from New York City last month in a dispute over funding for sheltering migrants.

A federal judge has denied New York City's request to return $80 million in FEMA funds for migrant housing that the Trump administration clawed back. In a ruling on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rearden of Manhattan declined to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from pulling back the federal funding approved by the Biden administration last year to reimburse the city for hotels it leased as shelters.