Nov 09, 2024
FEMA fired an employee who had instructed relief workers in Florida to not go to homes with yard signs supporting presidential candidate Donald Trump. “This was reprehensible,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell wrote in a statement. The firing comes days after Trump won the presidency against Vice President Kamala Harris, but weeks into the recovery effort of Hurricane Milton. The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Saturday confirmed that it fired an employee who had instructed relief workers in Florida to not go to homes with yard signs in support of then presidential candidate Donald Trump. “This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell wrote in a statement. “This was reprehensible.”  The Daily Wire first reported on Friday that the now-terminated FEMA supervisor had ordered her employees to exclude Trump-supportive houses from their recovery efforts. “I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again,” Criswell said in the statement. Criswell added that the matter had been referred to the Office of Special Counsel for an investigation. Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday blasted the Biden administration for the incident and said he had ordered the Division of Emergency Management to investigate the “targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump.” “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 wrote in a post on X. The firing comes days after Trump won the presidency against Vice President Kamala Harris, but weeks into the recovery effort of Hurricane Milton, which ravaged neighborhoods along Florida’s Gulf Coast. At the time of the hurricane damage, Criswell slammed Trump for spreading misinformation about the status of FEMA’s disaster relief funding What Trump’s win could mean for student loan forgivenessTrump criminal election case paused as special counsel Jack Smith weighs fate of prosecutionTrump calls for investigation of ‘rumors’ he plans to sell Trump Media stockEurope cannot finance Ukraine war if Trump pulls U.S. out of the conflict, Hungary’s Orban warnsPolymarket plans U.S. return after signaling Trump election win, founder says
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