FEMA ‘horrified’ after confirming workers directed to ‘avoid homes’ with Trump signs in hurricane-ravaged Florida community
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A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supervisor told disaster relief workers in Florida to “avoid homes” with signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump, the agency confirmed Friday.
The FEMA official — Marn’i Washington — conveyed her edict both verbally and in a Microsoft Teams chat used by relief workers canvassing Lake Placid homes ravaged by Hurricane Milton last month, according to the Daily Wire .
“Avoid homes advertising Trump,” Washington wrote in a “best practices” memo to employees.
The order was the second bullet point in a list instructing workers to not go “anywhere alone,” practice “de-escalation,” stay hydrated and to “follow the rules.”
FEMA employees told the outlet that at least 20 homes displaying Trump signs or flags — a common sight during election season — were passed between the end of October and into November because of the order.
“Trump sign no entry per leadership,” read messages left by workers in FEMA’s tracking system when homes were skipped because of the banners.
By ignoring the homes, residents were denied the opportunity to sign up for federal FEMA disaster relief assistance in the wake of the Category 3 hurricane’s landfall .
A FEMA spokesperson confirmed that orders to bypass the homes of Trump supporters were given, and said that the agency was “deeply disturbed by this employee’s actions.”
“FEMA helps all survivors regardless of their political preference or affiliation and we are deeply disturbed by this employee’s actions,” the agency spokesperson told The Post Friday night.
“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,” they added.
“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.
“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 rep said.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fumed over the incident Friday, arguing that it was emblematic of the Harris-Biden administration’s “weaponization” of government.
“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 on X .
“At my direction, the Division of Emergency Management is launching an investigation into the federal government’s targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump,” he added.
“New leadership is on the way in DC, and I’m optimistic that these partisan bureaucrats will be fired.”
The FEMA supervisor’s guidance was issued after the Harris-Biden administration came under fire from Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and residents of areas affected by Hurricane Helene over the federal government’s brutally slow response to the disaster.
FEMA employees told the Daily Wire that Washington has not been punished for the guidance — and was simply shifted to a different Florida county. However, a FEMA spokesperson told The Post that Washington is “no longer working in the state of Florida or in any FEMA operations at this moment” pending the outcome of an investigation.
The Post has reached out to Trump’s campaign for comment.
People need to go to jail for this.
You know what will happen, the low functioning will claim that the supervisor did this for the safety of her workers because trump supporters are violent Nazi's, or something to that effect, and the equally ignorant minions will repeat it.
Yep.
what are your thoughts on Trump spreading lies about Fema ?
If Trump ordered FEMA not to help Democrats he should have been impeached for that.
... and in that fantasy scenario, he'd be dead from natural causes due to age before that ever went to trial.
You didn't answer Iggy's question.
I have no idea what he’s talking about.
It's pretty straightforward.
pffft, fuck those criminal/traitor supporting goobers. I know that if I was a career civil servant that may lose my job in an agency that may no longer exist, I would be making negative life altering decisions for losers that think people in elected office can't be held accountable, and yet can appreciate the concept of revenge and retribution by their votes. oops, sorry, the fema complaint department is closed until sometime in february, hopefully ... ... the line starts over there ...
I don't believe this is true. Not for a minute.
Agreed and this is an example of the deep blue state which Trump will have to clean out completely.
Assuming the facts reported in the Post article are true, good for FEMA. They appear not to be trying to cover this up and, instead, appear to be acting transparently as to the investigation.
That said, I have some obvious questions.
#3 was answered in the article.
Over a month is the answer. Next question is where were the FEMA whistle blower underlings following the orders who should have alerted Washington immediately?
Yes, I was aware of that information, but it is a bit too vague to me and why I included it as a question. I would like a more specific timeline. End of October could mean anything past the middle of October to the last couple of days.
Well, if we assume a point past the middle of the month of October, it could not have been more than a month, since today is only the 9th of November but you've hit the important bit and why I'd like to have a more precise timeline. In what manner and how long after the issuing of the order did someone alert someone else and who?
Prove it.
Yet another baseless accusation off of emotions and hatred.
NO
i need prove NOTHING to Deniers of the LIAR
If you can't back it up then just say you can't.
Probably should have had a policy of entering properties with Trump signs at their own risk. That would not be unreasonable considering how the cult considers FEMA.
Death threatning fema after Trump spread bullshit, and if found true, why are people surprised ,,,
... no shit. most likely potential goober militia members, they should be considered armed and mentally unstable ...
I think the timeline is that Trump and friends lied about FEMA in NC, and threats were made against FEMA personnel there. Seeing this , someone in FEMA made the very big mistake of saying FEMA workers should avoid Trumpster homes in Florida. The government cannot pick and choose who to help in disasters.
Also, maybe Trump and MAGA fanatics should have kept their mouths shut in North Carolina.
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... the army of morons has but one exalted leader ...
Not really anymore. Democrats will no longer be in power in January
... ah, the pee wee herman defense. well played ... /s
Morning..why would you want to advertise the fact who you vote for anyway?
All it seems to do over there is cause trouble, disputes, arguments and discontentment..
And IF this is true re FEMA it really is a very sad state of affairs for everyone...
for some, there is your answer tight there.
Yes because everyone enjoys being called racist, white supremacist, fascist, nazi and Hitler only because of the person you support.
I’m sure millions of blacks and Hispanics enjoy it even more
Why some folks don't understand that is baffling. Why they would think that would help anything is also perplexing
What is even more baffling is, just like clock work, they will do it all again in 2026 and 2028 then have a deer in the headlight look when asked what happened with the hige loss they once again took.
... yeah, it's an evolutionary issue ...
My problem with the democrats is that if they are going to go that route, bve brutally honest about it. They always pull punches, like they are afraid of making anyone mad. Fuck that.
Trump is a fat mentally retarded asshole, just say that. His ideas are fucking retarded, just say that. Inflation hurt and was gonna happen because of covid no matter what, just say that. I think most voters just want honesty.
Huh? They certainly don't seem afraid of making at least half of the electorate mad.
Just as the Republicans may have underestimated the effect of sending abortion back to the states the Democrats may have underestimated the effect of Men in womens bathrooms, insisting everyone use the pronoun of the day and men in womans sports. Did they really think people (especially people with dayghters would have no problem with any of this madness?
I guess I should have been clear about making their base mad, good call.
Do you think Trump is a racist or not ?
Do you not think he uses different peoples different colors, races, religions, ethnicities,countries of origin, and any damn difference he can find, to further divide these formally United States me?!
Cause he has and does, and if you can't see, and agree, you are in denial of one so damn vile, that it is no longer amusing, maybe confusing, but certainly nothing for US to laugh at.
He and the mouthpieces and networks on the so wrongly called "right", have repeated so much damn bullshit about the left, and specifically about Harris's campaign, it was ridiculous, but, rather effective, because the sheeple only hear the echoe chambers, and have proven to either have confirmation byass , ignorance, or just plain refusal to learn the truth about a 'man' and a party so void of couth they make a patriot outta James Wilkes Booth.
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This country was bombarded with bullshit, about how Kamala was gonna give all this money for transgender operations for prisoner convicts, allow illegals to vote, spending all the Fema monies on illegal immigrants, statiingbFema was gonna seize their properties, exagerating the fck out of crime statistics, claiming avweaponized court system, etc. etc, etc !
And fools bought into it, and now were left with a president of the United States who should be behind bars,mbut instead has vast immunities and has threatened to go after any opposition, fire Fed workers that aren't in lock step, dismantle many institutions, start tariff trade wars, bail out on Ukraine to honor his hero Putin. It is just ridiculous that those on the 'right', think this is all right.
The guy is a racist misoginistic pig, an adjudicated rapist, best bud to Epstein and admitted grabber of any and all pussys'.
but you guys are all okay with that, as the biggest LIAR ive ever seen shits on the American Dream....
hope you sleep well, cause i predict Hell
Yep. Be honest. Keep it up.
Things like this is what will ensure Vance will have two terms after Trump finishes his second term, and depending on how much the left wants to "be honest", Republicans can have a majority in government for a long time to come.
I hope so, so keep it up. Fight for the cause.
No not at all because there is no proof of such, but Harris certainly thought Biden is, because she called him out on national tv, and there are many videos of him saying racist/bigoted things.
"Do you not think he uses different peoples different colors, races, religions, ethnicities,countries of origin, and any damn difference he can find, to further divide these formally United States me"
No, You need to look at the electorate this election cycle. Trump increased his UNITY of minority voters which put him over the top to win the election.
"He and the mouthpieces and networks on the so wrongly called "right", have repeated so much damn bullshit about the left, and specifically about Harris's campaign, it was ridiculous, but, rather effective, because the sheeple only hear the echoe chambers, and have proven to either have confirmation byass , ignorance, or just plain refusal to learn the truth about a 'man' and a party so void of couth they make a patriot outta James Wilkes Booth."
You can substitute "right" with "left" and "bullshit about the left" with "bullshit about the right", "Harris campaign" with "Trump campaign" and you have just described the Harris campaign and most of her supporters to a tee. Can you point out where Trump supporters called Harris supporters vile names similar to racist, fascist, white supremacist and Hitler? No, you can't because it didn't happen.
It's time to get over it and move on. Trump will be your president for the next four years.
Fire the person and be done with it. No place for partisanship in jobs where on call exists.
Agreed, they did fire her.
Good.
I saw a report where this woman spoke out and said she was following her chain of command's direction. Could be true, maybe not, but my gut feeling was it is true.
There were reports of threats against FEMA workers in North Carolina, and ONE person was arrested for making these threats, but these workers were in Florida, where no threats were reported.
Thankfully, the head of FEMA will sit in front of Congress soon. They will probably lie but the truth will come out eventually.