FEMA Workers Told To Avoid Homes With Trump Signs

This is one of the reasons we're throwing the Biden-Harris administration out. Employing partisan hacks like this (and Merrick Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, Xavier Becerra, etc.) caused their defeat. Good riddance.

FEMA confirms workers told to 'avoid homes' with Trump signs during hurricane response

November 8, 2024

WASHINGTON (TNND) — An employee with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) told relief workers responding to Category 3 Hurricane Milton in Florida to "avoid homes" with signs in support of now-President-elect Donald Trump, the agency now confirms.

The Daily Wire reports FEMA Supervisor Marn'i Washington informed workers verbally and via a Microsoft Teams chat while they responded to a Lake Placid community.

In a best practices memo, Washington wrote "Avoid homes advertising Trump," the outlet reported. Also in the memo were a few other bullet points telling workers to stay together, practice "de-escalation" and follow the rules.

At least 20 different homes with Trump signs or flags were passed following the storm because of the order, FEMA employees told The Daily Wire.

FEMA's tracking system contained messages like "Trump sign no entry per leader," the employees told the outlet.

Because of the order, residents living in those homes were unable to sign up for federal disaster relief aid.



A FEMA spokesperson confirmed the reports to The New York Post on Friday, noting the agency was "deeply disturbed" by the employee's actions.

“While we believe this is an isolated incident, we have taken measures to remove the employee from their role and are investigating the matter to prevent this from happening ever again,” the spokesperson told the Post.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., claimed on X that the employee had not been fired, writing, "FEMA hasn’t fired this personBut the IRS has been trying to force IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley out for blowing the whistle! We must hold these unelected bureaucrats accountable."

The FEMA spokesperson told The Post that the supervisor is "no longer working in the state of Florida or in any FEMA operations at this moment" amid an ongoing investigation.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wrote in a post on X, "The blatant weaponization of government by partisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden-Harris administration is in its final days."

DeSantis has ordered the state's emergency management division to investigate what he calls "the federal government's targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump."

The House Oversight Committee responded to the report on X, writing, "FEMA admits this happened but doesn’t say if the bureaucrat responsible has been fired. Democrats relentlessly defend the rules that insulate unelected bureaucrats from accountability and make it nearly impossible to fire bad employees. This is why we need President Trump’s reforms to make bureaucrats accountable."

Following Hurricane Helene and in the lead-up to Milton, the Biden Administration came under fire from members of the Republican party who lamented the government's "slow" response to the storm.

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/am...teams-chat-federal-aid-ron-desantis-politics#

 

... and word just came down that the FEMA official who directed workers to avoid homes with Trump signs HAS BEEN FIRED!

The clean-up begins......!