FEMA urged to conduct mass firings over revelation staff told to ignore hurricane-ravaged homes with Trump signs
Republicans are furiously calling for mass firings at FEMA after it was discovered that an employee told agents to avoid providing hurricane relief to Donald Trump supporters.
Republicans are furiously calling for mass firings at FEMA after it was discovered that an employee told agents to avoid providing hurricane relief to Donald Trump supporters.
A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) worker was fired after a Daily Wire report revealed she instructed her team to discriminate against MAGA Americans facing disaster.
An internal group message between FEMA workers showed that best practices for responding to the devastating Hurricanes Helene and Milton included avoiding homes advertising Trump.
Conservatives across the country are now demanding for further investigations and firings.
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, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said following the report.
At least 20 homes with signage indicating their support for the President-elect were skipped by FEMA workers, according to a bombshell report. Republicans are furious over the political bias within the agency
He called it evidence of targeted discrimination against Trump supporters based on their political affiliation.
New leadership is on the way in DC, and Im optimistic that these partisan bureaucrats will be fired, the governor continued.
Donald Trump Jr. also sounded off on the FEMA workers prejudice.
This is outrageous even for the Democrats in charge and should be criminal.
These people should be ousted from FEMA, Government and society! A full investigation is in order!
Marn’i Washington, the FEMA employee in question, instructed workers in Lake Placid, Florida, to avoid Trump supporting homes.
Republicans call it evidence of targeted discrimination against Trump supporters based on their political affiliation
A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) worker was fired after a Daily Wire report revealed she instructed her team to discriminate against MAGA Americans facing disaster
FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Teams clear debris
FEMA officials talk to residents displaced out of their apartment complex during Hurricane Milton
Her edict prompted workers to avoid at least 20 homes with signage, indicating their support for the President-elect, leaving residents to fend for themselves without any federal aid, employees who spoke with the outlet reported.
Washington was rebuked by the FEMA chief in a statement following the report.
This is a clear violation of FEMAs core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation, Criswell said. This was reprehensible.
I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again, she said.
Trump sign no entry per leadership, one of the workers confirmed to a FEMA group chat, indicating that Trump supporters homes were actually skipped by federal workers, the outlet reports.
FEMA officials discriminated against Trump voters? Totally illegal, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote on X alongside a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) internal investigator.
Ted Cruz, who was just reelected to the Senate in Texas, added that it is a stunning abuse of power.
Everyone involved in issuing these instructions should be fired immediately.
Im asking the Inspector General to launch a full investigation immediately. Everyone involved needs to be identified, fired - and if necessary, prosecuted, Hawley continued.
Florida Republican Rep. Bryon Donalds also called for firings.
Following Hurricane Milton, FEMA workers were told to avoid helping Trump supporters. Anyone involved should be fired immediately.
We are one nation. We are one people. And we have one shared destiny. Your politics should never determine whether you receive disaster relief.