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From Fox News: A former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employee said the guidance to skip over houses with Trump signs and banners is part of a larger diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issue with the agency, saying it was “completely avoidable.”
Chelsea Nied, a former FEMA employee who was deployed 66 times in 22 states on the front lines of natural disasters, told Fox News Digital that Marn’i Washington, who has since been fired as a FEMA supervisor, should have refused the direction after spotting the “glaring political line” over instructing relief workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump.”
“What was really striking about the list that Washington sent to relief workers was that you have a glaring political line after seeing common directions, like drink water, be hydrated, communicate,” she said. “And in my experience, particularly from being in external affairs, when you see something like that doesn’t look normal you need to escalate it.”
Public backlash came after FEMA confirmed to Fox News Digital that an employee had instructed aid workers to deny relief to residents who had Trump campaign signs at their homes. The Daily Wire was the first to report it.
The outlet said approximately 20 homes in Lake Placid, Florida, were passed over and not given government assistance after Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene.
“The big problem with all of this is that this didn’t have to get spun out of control this far and this wide. It could have been resolved, shall we say, in house,” Nied said. “And I’ve done that before in FEMA where I’ve been given unethical orders like this, and I immediately escalated it.”
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Former FEMA employee slams agency on equity focus after official tells workers to avoid homes with Trump signs https://t.co/XegeJZU87D
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 18, 2024
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