FEMA Worker Fired For Telling Hurricane Responders To Avoid Homes With Pro-Trump Signs

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From npr:

A tattered American flag flaps outside a home after Hurricane Helene and before the arrival of Hurricane Milton, on Anna Maria Island, Fla., last month.

A Federal Emergency Management Agency worker has been fired after she told a team responding to hurricane survivors to not go to homes with yard signs showing support for President-elect Donald Trump, the agency said.

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell called the employee’s action “reprehensible,” and said the matter had been referred to the Office of Special Counsel. “This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values & principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” Criswell said in a statement on Saturday.

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