An employee of FEMA was fired after telling Florida relief workers to avoid Trump supporters.
- An employee of FEMA was let go after giving instructions to relief workers in Florida not to visit homes with Trump yard signs.
- FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell wrote in a statement, "This was unacceptable."
- Weeks after Hurricane Milton's recovery effort, Trump was fired.
On Saturday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confirmed that it had terminated an employee who directed relief workers in Florida not to visit homes displaying yard signs for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
"FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell wrote in a statement that this action goes against FEMA's core values and principles of helping people regardless of their political affiliation, and she called it "reprehensible.""
On Friday, The Daily Wire reported that the FEMA supervisor who was recently terminated had instructed her staff to exclude Trump-backing homes from their disaster recovery efforts.
Criswell stated that he would take all necessary measures to prevent the occurrence of this event from happening again.
The Office of Special Counsel was tasked with investigating the matter referred to by Criswell.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida criticized the Biden administration on Friday for the incident and stated that he had instructed the Division of Emergency Management to probe the "discrimination against Floridians who back Donald Trump."
The use of weapons by partisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is another reason why the Biden-Harris administration is coming to an end, as DeSantis stated in a post on X.
Weeks after Hurricane Milton devastated neighborhoods along Florida's Gulf Coast, Trump was fired from his position as president.
During the hurricane damage, Criswell criticized Trump for spreading false information about FEMA's disaster relief funding.
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