An employee with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been fired from her position after she allegedly urged her team not to visit homes with signs backing then-presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, the director of the agency said amid mounting investigations into the matter.
In a statement posted on social media platform X, FEMA Director Deanne Criswell said that the employee, who she did not name, was “terminated” and that the agency has “referred the matter 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,” she wrote on Saturday. “This was reprehensible. I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct.”…