Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell says the agency has fired the employee accused of ordering relief aid workers to skip homes in Florida that had signs supporting Donald Trump for president.
“More than 22,000 FEMA employees every day adhere to FEMA’s core values and are dedicated to helping people before, during and after disasters, often sacrificing time with their own families to help disaster survivors. Recently, one FEMA employee departed from these values to advise her survivor assistance team to not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump. This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation. This was reprehensible,” Criswell said.
“I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct.
“We take our mission to help everyone before, during and after disasters seriously. This employee has been terminated and we have referred the matter to the Office of Special Counsel. I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again,” she said.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer of Kentucky sent a letter to Criswell on Saturday asking her to show up before the committee on Nov. 19 to answer questions about the incident.
How can FEMA look at themselves in the mirror after leaving good American’s out in the storm???
She should be fired. She was a conservative. She would be no human compassion, just selfish views.
Was. Read the story.
Add FEMA to the long and growing list of corrupt and incompetent US government agencies including, but not limited to, DOJ, FBI, US Secret Service, and Federal DOT.
Fired? Or moved to another department…..
Read the story.
And we are being asked to unify with these people. Get a grip folks, its not reasonable to expect that. Some people are just not on the team.
Someone needs to go to jail for a long time. Firing is not enough
What? Another federal agency weaponized by the Democrats to only help those who comply with the empowered dictatorship in DC?
Unbelievable but fully expected.
Maybe this helped in these areas.
Clearly helped push folks to DJ Trump..
Nice work libtards
These left wingers are evil to the core. Someone in an emergency and they walk right by. Really nice. Our federal government is completely out of control.
Hell, have Chriswell bring the employee along for a grilling and watch the left meltdown
Biden and Harris weaponized every single agency against America! Good thing we woke up!
And people are baffled as to the reason why conservatives highly dislike and distrust the government.
I read this on my national media channel. Ron is on it. No worries.
Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. – Ronald Reagan
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I can’t wait for Trump to clean house on day 1. All these alphabet soup agencies, I suppose they had good intentions at the start, have become weaponized, bloated, or are just plain incompetent. Those like the EPA have been given far too much power to the unelected bureaucrats. Get out the broom!
There’s 4 letters he must not tamper with. NATO. His buddy Putin wants him to though.
All of the above Jim… Caught one, one hundred thousand to go.
I find this hard to believe. So the story evolves, one employee was fired because he ordered relief workers to skip houses with Trump signs. If I had been there I’d have told him to piss off.
Maybe the FEMA employees were looting homes.
Not possible. Remember the bizarre Claim that Trump said about fema not even being in S. Carolina? Can’t blame them if they weren’t even there.
They were just probably afraid they would get shot by some crazed maga if they approached the property. It’s just a good thing the U.N. wasn’t involved.
I can guarantee, that this will be swept under the rug! Just like every other crime perpetrated by the government.
Destroy FEMA. Fire everyone in that agency and then rebuild a new one. That’s how you eff Democrats.
Previous employees must be banned from future gummint hire… Rebuild the agency and they just hire everyone back and impose the same regulations – it is horribly difficult to reform entrenched bureaucracy…
Washington, who according to her now-deleted LinkedIn has been employed by FEMA since 2019, also works as a regional manager in the Bay Area for the property management firm Avanath Capital Management LLC and lists herself as an owner of the logistics company Olam Industries LLC.
The former FEMA employee, who her sister said grew up in Oakland, has a strong fixation with the history of slavery.
She posted on her Facebook page in 2019 about supposedly the first slave ship to travel to the Americas in the 1500s as well as an article about how California tried to ban free black individuals in the mid-1800s.
“I’m steadfast and extremely unpredictable,” she wrote on her social media page, adding a kiss emoji.
This was likely not the action of a “rogue” employee. It occurred because the dominant culture at FEMA supported the employee and the employee was acting consistent with that culture. Many federal agencies may be quite similar. Everyone hates conservatives, listens to NPR and reads the WashPost or New York Times. Trump is both a real and imagined threat to these folks. The bureaucracy will seek to hold on to power by any means necessary.
This reminds me of all the survivors of Hurricane Katrina who were falsely imprisoned by the contract “police” unit… so much corruption on the heels of personal devastation for these folks.
If you think, even in the slightest, that the government should take over health care, you are a very special kind of stupid.
So they caught the FEMA worker in Fl..What and when are they going to fire, all those FEMA workers in the North Carolina fiasc??
Many fema workers in NC also refused to serve the N. Carolna’s people either..and just who were operating those “black” helicopters that flew over the food bank distroying the booths serving the people.