‘Discrimination’: House Oversight Wants FEMA Head to Testify, Rep. Luna ‘Disheartened’ Over Workers Skipping Trump Homes During Hurricane Relief

Congressional Republicans are demanding answers after a FEMA employee directed agency workers to ignore storm-affected Floridians last month while they navigated the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.

Meanwhile, criminal charges have not been ruled out for the agency employee who issued the order, Fox News reported Saturday night.

The network covered the scandal as anchor Jon Scott asked Fox correspondent Madison Scarpino for the latest on the bombshell, which was first reported Friday by the conservative news outlet The Daily Wire.

Scott noted, “The Federal Emergency Management Agency is facing major backlash after confirming reports that a supervisor ordered disaster relief workers to avoid homes with Trump yard signs during Hurricane Milton recovery efforts in Florida.” Scott tossed to Scarpino, who reported:

Yeah, the FEMA administrator confirms that the worker behind all of this has been fired after around 20 damaged Florida homes were reportedly ignored because of their residents political affiliation. Now, the Office of Special Counsel is now handling this, but many House and Senate members are outraged and want answers.

Fox obtained a comment from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who said, “The fact that anyone would make this partisan, especially with how many people lost literally everything to include some of their lives. It’s disheartening. It’s no longer you’re looking at someone else, it’s in another American as an equal. You’re looking at them with political affiliation. And obviously that’s wrong because we know that at the end of the day, everyone’s paying their tax dollars. Not to mention it is political discrimination.”

Scarpino further reported:

[FEMA] tells Fox they believe this was an isolated incident. But now Florida officials, House Republicans, and FEMA itself are investigating the matter. The FEMA administrator says the incident is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation. According to The Daily Wire, in a system that tracks all applications, hurricane relief workers would enter that they made no contact with a resident if there was Trump signage saying in the system, “Trump sign no contact per leadership.”

“So, we’ll see if that fired official will face any criminal charges. FEMA also says that they are reaching out to people who live in those Florida homes that may have been skipped over because of this. And John, I do want to mention that we’re just now learning that the House Oversight Committee is inviting FEMA’s administrator to come testify about all of this on November 19th. So we’ll see what happens.

FEMA Director Deanne Criswell confirmed Saturday the employee behind the shocking order to ignore hurricane-besieged Americans had been fired.

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