Republicans vow to investigate FEMA over claims unhinged bosses told staff to skip Trump supporters in disaster areas

Congressional Republicans are vowing to launch multiple investigations into the Federal Emergency Management Agency after a fired supervisor claimed that she and other staffers were instructed to ignore Trump-supporting homes as part of disaster recovery efforts.“This will be investigated,” promised North Carolina GOP Sen.Ted Budd on Tuesday in an X post responding to the shocking allegations that the FEMA mandate was widespread in Florida and the Carolinas after Hurricanes Helene and Milton hit.“Anyone who abuses the power of the federal government to hurt North Carolinians in need will be held accountable,” Budd added.

“I will personally see to it.”Sen.Josh Hawley, a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, urged his panel to launch a probe and haul the sacked employee in for sworn testimony.“The Homeland Security Committee needs to launch an immediate investigation and call this individual to testify.

Under oath.In public,” Hawley (R-Mo.) also posted Tuesday on X, sharing a recent interview with the employee who was let go.FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington claimed in a Monday podcast interview with Roland Martin that higher-ups scapegoated her for abiding by an agency-wide practice of skipping “politically hostile” homes in hurricane-ravaged states.“FEMA preaches avoidance first, and then de-escalation.

This is not isolated.This is a colossal event of avoidance,” the 39-year-old ex-government employee said.“Not just in the state of Florida.

You will find avoidance in the Carolinas.”Washington told her team of FEMA workers in a Microsoft Teams chat to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as part of agency “best practices,” according to screenshots obtained by the Daily WireThe House Oversight Committee and House Homeland Security committees have both launched their own probes of the alleged misconduct.An Oversight spokeswoman told The Post on Tuesday that FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell wil...