The Federal Emergency Management Agency admitted that one of their staffers ordered relief workers to ignore hurricane-damaged homes that had Trump signs.
The Daily Wire exclusively reported the story after a whistleblower came forward with evidence that disaster relief was provided based on political party affiliation. At least 20 homes were passed over.
“I know they’re short-staffed, I thought we could go help and make a difference,” one of the relief workers told Daily Wire. “When we got there we were told to discriminate against people. It’s almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that’s okay.”
“I volunteered to help disaster victims, not discriminate against them,” the employee said. “It didn’t matter if people were black, white, Hispanic, for Trump, for Harris. Everyone deserves the same amount of help.”
FEMA issued a statement to Daily Wire confirming the story. Click here to get my breaking news alerts.
“FEMA helps all survivors regardless of their political preference or affiliation and we are deeply disturbed by this employee’s actions,” the statement read. “While we believe this is an isolated incident, we have taken measures to remove the employee from their role and are investigating the matter to prevent this from happening ever again. The employee who issued this guidance had no authority and was given no direction to tell teams to avoid these homes and we are reaching out to the people who may have not been reached as a result of this incident.”
