Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell stands next to a path map of Hurricane Ian during a news conference at FEMA headquarters in Washington, DC, on September 28, 2022.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency confirmed Saturday that it had fired an employee who instructed rescue workers in Florida not to go to homes with yard signs supporting then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles of helping people regardless of political affiliation,” Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Dean Criswell wrote in a statement. “This is reprehensible.”
this daily telegraph It was first reported on Friday that the now-fired director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had ordered his staff to exclude pro-Trump homes from recovery efforts.
“I will continue to do everything in my power to ensure this never happens again,” Criswell said in a statement.
Criswell added that the matter has been referred to the Special Counsel’s Office for investigation.
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday blasted the Biden administration over the incident and said he had ordered the Department of Emergency Management to investigate “discrimination against Floridians who support Donald Trump.”
“The blatant weaponization of government by partisan activists within the federal bureaucracy is another reason the Biden-Harris administration is in its final days,” DeSantis wrote in a report. postal on X.
The firings come just days after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to win the presidency, but weeks after recovery efforts from Hurricane Milton, which devastated Florida’s Gulf Coast Community.
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