‘I’m going to tell you the truth’: Kyrsten Sinema denies her former boss, says decision to send $130M in migrant money to New York instead of border states is because Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is from NEW YORK

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema turned on her former boss on Wednesday, overturning the decision to send $130 million to New York to deal with an influx of migrants, saying it was only done because Chuck Schumer, leader of the majority in the senate, comes from the state.

Sinema left the Democratic Party last year and now has more freedom to speak her mind as an independent.

She did so on Wednesday during a roundtable for first responders in the border town of Yuma, when she learned how the migrant crisis had affected their work.

She was asked why so much money was being sent from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Shelter Services Program to New York, more than 2,500 miles from Yuma.

And she said she was “outraged” that frontline border areas had lost money to cities that didn’t have the same problem.

Sinema denounced her former boss, saying the reason so much money from migrants had ended up in New York was because the Senate Majority Leader (Chuck Schumer, pictured) was from there

“My staff will be really upset, but I’m going to tell you the truth here,” she said.

“The reason the money goes to New York is because… the leader of the United States Senate is from New York. So a lot of money went to New York.’

Her anger was evident in her facial expression. And in the heat of the moment, she seemed to be mistaken in saying that the House Speaker was from New York.

In fact, Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy is from California. But her target may have been the Democratic leader in the House, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who is from New York.

She announced she was leaving the party last December and has been enjoying taking weed shots ever since.

She continued to say that the money should not have been funneled out of the border areas

“The money was intended, and there was language in the law that said it should go for decompression at the border,” she said.

“The fact that any amount of money went to New York City from a landowner is wrong, in my opinion, because they’re not a border state and they don’t face the kind of pressures we face here.”

The program was developed by Congress to help Customs and Border Protection manage processing, prevent overcrowding at the agency’s short-term facilities, and reduce stress in host communities.

Migrants gather outside the Roosevelt Hotel, where dozens of recently arrived migrants have camped as they try to secure temporary housing in New York

But Sinema says Arizona bears the brunt of the crisis. May saw a record number of arrivals and nearly 300 newly arrived migrants were released

Arizona received approximately $45.4 million in the first round of funding and will receive an additional $23.9 million.

New York, on the other hand, received about $30 million in the first round and will receive another $104.6 million.

“I am furious that the government is sending money to a part of the country where many people are turning up in their shelters, but there are no people roaming the streets of our small towns,” she said.

And communities battling heat exhaustion show up without basics like formula. People will cross the border with chickenpox.

“What we’re experiencing here in Arizona only matches what people in southern Texas are experiencing. Those are the two communities going through this crisis.’

At the same time, New York continues to deal with thousands of migrants arriving each month. Many have come on buses from southern states, where governors sent migrants north to highlight border security problems.

On Wednesday, it emerged that the city may even set up a tent camp in Central Park.

The proposed migrant plan, first reported by the Gothamist, also envisions 3,000 other New York sites, including tourist public green spaces, as places to erect emergency housing for the crushing influx of migrants.

In response to the Gothamist report, Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom said, “Everything is on the table.”