An investigation has cleared the Federal Emergency Management Agency of any wrongdoing stemming from accusations that employees of the agency were instructed to deliberately avoid assisting homes of then Trump supporters in hurricane ravaged Florida, Politico reported on Tuesday.
The investigation found “no evidence” the agency’s upper management had told field workers to purposely avoid homes with Trump yard signs thereby denying them federal disaster relief benefits, following the devastation caused by back-to-back Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the fall of 2024.
In November it was reported that Marn’i Washington, a FEMA official, gave a directive both verbally and via a Microsoft Teams chat used by relief workers to pass over homes with signage supporting then candidate Donald Trump. FEMA employees told the Daily Wire that a minimum of 20 homes displaying Trump signs were passed over.
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