FEMA Chief: ‘No Evidence’ Senior Officials Ordered Discrimination Against Trump Supporters

An internal Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) investigation found “no evidence” that a directive to hurricane relief workers to avoid the homes of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters came from senior agency officials, according to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. The statement follows backlash over the revelation that a FEMA supervisor ordered Hurricane Milton relief workers canvassing in Lake Placid, Florida, to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” The employee in question, Marn’i Washington, has since been terminated for issuing orders that Criswell said were “completely at odds with FEMA’s mission.” “My senior leadership team provided me with this visual evidence that the employee had, in fact, issued this statement, these instructions, and they recommended that this employee be terminated. I concurred and directed the termination, and the employee was fired,” Criswell advised members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Nov. 19....