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鈥檚 action 鈥渞eprehensible,鈥� and said the matter had been referred to the Office of Special Counsel.
鈥淭his is a clear violation of FEMA鈥檚 core values & principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,鈥� Criswell on Saturday.
The agency did not identify the employee or say when or where their actions happened.
Florida it happened in Florida. The Republican governor on Saturday reshared a post from The Daily Wire, a that first reported the news of the firing on Friday, before FEMA issued its statement.
DeSantis said the federal worker鈥檚 behavior was "targeted discrimination" of Florida residents who support Trump and that he鈥檚 directed the Florida Division of Emergency Management to investigate the matter.
"The blatant weaponization of government by partisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden-Harris administration is in its final days," DeSantis said.
FEMA workers have been in the state helping residents recover from last month and, before that, .
The news comes a month after the agency about its disaster response funding. Criswell also that "disaster response is non-political. It is all about the people."
鈥淲e take our mission to help everyone before, during and after disasters seriously. I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again,鈥� Criswell said in Saturday鈥檚 statement.
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