‘We registered Trump supporters, we’ve given them service as well, just we avoided the areas that were hostile,’ she said.
An official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) who was fired for allegedly instructing staff to skip hurricane-hit homes with signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump clarified that her team had “registered Trump supporters” during disaster relief efforts.
Earlier in November, the head of FEMA confirmed that Marn’i Washington was terminated after reports and screenshots indicated that homes with Trump signs had been flagged to be skipped or were skipped under her direction. Her messages were captured during the response to Hurricane Milton, which impacted Florida’s western coast in October.
Previously, Washington told media outlets that FEMA was scapegoating her for a policy that was widely deployed by the agency following Hurricanes Milton and Helene.
But in an interview on Nov. 18 with CNN’s Laura Coates, Washington said that she was “on two teams in Florida” and that the first team, when she arrived, was “implementing avoidance and de-escalation and unfortunately that trend ran with those Trump signs.”
“We registered Trump supporters, we’ve given them service as well, just we avoided the areas that were hostile,” Washington said on the CNN program.
The fired official said that FEMA had encountered hostility from multiple Florida residents in the aftermath of Milton. FEMA’s guidelines, she said, allow workers to remove themselves from hostile situations or if they felt threatened.
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warned that the agency needed more funding from Congress to finish the hurricane season.
A spokesperson for FEMA told The Epoch Times that the agency cannot comment on pending litigation, responding to a question about Washington’s public remarks about being allegedly scapegoated.
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