Rep. Greg Staube (R-FL) revealed on Fox News that someone or persons in Washington, DC, sent text messages to the FEMA supervisor, who directed people to skip houses supporting Donald Trump after Hurricane Milton.
STAUBE: If it was happening in Lake Placid, it’s happening all across the great state of Florida. Probably happening in western North Carolina. Probably happening all of the states that were hit by Hurricane Helene, and that’s what we in Congress need to get to the bottom of. FEMA, the administration wants to say this was an isolated incident, but there are alleged text messages from Washington, DC to the supervisor advising them and directing them to do this. So somebody higher up within FEMA was advising the people on the ground to do this. So if it was happening in Lake Placid, I can guarantee you it was happening in other places, all across the great state of Florida and the country. And the Oversight Committee needs to get to the bottom of this. The very first stop would be the person who was fired. Put them under oath and ask them who in their chain of command was directing her to do this. There’d be some interesting testimony.BILL HEMER: You touched on this a moment ago. Ron DeSantis, your governor, sent this out on X, “The blatant weaponization of government by bipartisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden Harris administration is in its final days.” Can you reflect on that at all? That last point there, coming off this election.STAUBE: Well, that’s the other great thing about, yeah, that’s the great thing about these election results is Donald Trump’s going to be president in a short couple of months and we will get to the bottom of it because somebody in his administration will take over FEMA and will do its own investigation after the Biden-Harris Administration is out of there. So we’ll get the answers at some point.But I want to know how high up these decisions went, and every single person in that chain of command that was involved and or responsible for directing people who work for FEMA to not give FEMA aid to trump supporters. Is absolutely atrocious.HEMMER: Well, it appears FEMA did the right thing and terminated this individual. Had they not, we may never know the truth about it.
FEMA fired Marn’i Washington after The Daily Wire exposed her plan of action, which told workers to skip houses with Trump signs.
Lake Placid, FL, is located in Highlands County. Trump won 70% of the vote on November 5.
Angela Wrench told WFLA that three FEMA workers visited her home on Saturday: “I said ‘you are here because of the news, correct?’ They didn’t want to answer right away but one of them did finally say ‘yes, we’re just here trying to make things right.'”
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