A Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA) official has been faraway from a task after directing catastrophe aid staff to skip houses “advertising” help for President-elect Trump after the devastating hurricanes in Florida.
“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 mentioned.
“The employee who issued this guidance had no authority and was given no direction to tell teams to avoid these homes, and we are reaching out to the people who may have not been reached as a result of this incident.”
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FEMA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Photographs)
The Each day Wire first obtained inner messages concerning the incident.
In messages obtained by the outlet, a FEMA official instructs staff to “avoid homes advertising Trump.”
The outlet famous the help staff would enter right into a system monitoring functions that they made no contact with the residents, blaming the directive — “Trump sign, no contact per leadership.”
Hurricane Helene aftermath in Florida. (Workplace of Congresswoman Kat Cammack)
The company mentioned it’s investigating the incident and is taking it “extremely seriously.”
FEMA famous after hurricanes Helene and Milton the company has helped over 365,000 households and offered over $898 million in direct help.
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“We are horrified that this took place and therefore have taken extreme actions to correct this situation and have ensured that the matter was addressed at all levels,” the company mentioned. “Helping people is what we do best, and our workforce across the agency will continue to serve survivors for as long as it takes.”
President Biden talks with Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Administration Company, as he arrives at Greenville-Spartanburg Worldwide Airport in Greer, S.C., Oct. 2, 2024, to survey injury from Hurricane Helene. (AP Picture/Susan Walsh)
In an announcement on X, the U.S. Home Oversight Committee and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., mentioned the individual liable for sending out steerage to workers has not been fired.
“FEMA hasn’t fired this person…But the IRS has been trying to force IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley out for blowing the whistle! We must hold these unelected bureaucrats accountable,” Comer wrote on X.
“FEMA admits this happened but doesn’t say if the bureaucrat responsible has been fired,” the Home Oversight Committee wrote on X. “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.”
In an announcement on X, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced his administration is launching an investigation into FEMA.
“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 mentioned. “At my course, the Division of Emergency Administration is launching an investigation into the federal authorities’s focused discrimination of Floridians who help Donald Trump.
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“New leadership is on the way to D.C. and I’m optimistic that these partisan bureaucrats will be fired.”
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The invention of mismanagement got here after the Biden administration lectured individuals about spreading “disinformation” about FEMA.
Throughout a White Home tackle on the federal government’s response to hurricanes Milton and Helene, President Biden denounced the “reckless, irresponsible and relentless disinformation and outright lies that continue to flow.”
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“That $750 that they’re talking about? Mr. Trump and all those other people know it’s a lie to suggest that’s all they’re going to get,” Biden mentioned throughout an tackle in October. “It’s just bizarre. They got to stop this. They’re being so damn un-American with the way they’re talking about this stuff.”
