{"id":2368699,"date":"2024-11-13T20:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-explanations-emerge-for-fema-workers-avoiding-pro-trump-houses-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T01:01:50","slug":"two-explanations-emerge-for-fema-workers-avoiding-pro-trump-houses-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-explanations-emerge-for-fema-workers-avoiding-pro-trump-houses-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Two explanations emerge for FEMA workers avoiding pro-Trump houses &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-explanations-emerge-for-fema-workers-avoiding-pro-trump-houses-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2368699&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the controversy surrounding former FEMA supervisor Marn&#8217;i\u2062 Washington&#8217;s guidance for her team to avoid\u200b homes displaying pro-Trump sentiments during disaster\u200b recovery \u2063efforts in Florida. This \u2062advice followed reports\u200d of hostile encounters \u200dexperienced by FEMA employees from pro-Trump homeowners. \u2063In an interview, \u2064Washington defended her\u2064 actions as a measure\u2064 to ensure her \u2064team&#8217;s safety, claiming they had faced numerous \u2062threats while working in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Republican\u200b figures, including Rep. Carlos Gimenez and \u200bRep. Steve Scalise, condemned the decision \u2063as politically motivated,\u2064 alleging\u2063 that it represented an abuse of power aimed at denying\u200c aid to Trump supporters. \u200cGimenez emphasized the importance of accountability in \u2064FEMA&#8217;s \u2062actions, while \u200bScalise vowed to investigate the\u200b matter further.<\/p>\n<p>The article also highlights documented incidents\u200b of threats against FEMA workers, including\u200c armed confrontations that led to evacuations and interventions by community members. the situation has ignited a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-two-thirds-of-americans-hope-to-avoid-politics-at-thanksgiving\/\" title=\"Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Hope to Avoid Politics at Thanksgiving\">heated political debate<\/a> regarding \u2063the perceived\u2063 weaponization of governmental agencies\u2063 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-czar-kamala-harris-heads-to-the-border-to-push-green-energy\/\" title=\"Border Czar Kamala Harris Heads to the Border\u2014To Push Green Energy\">disaster response efforts<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Two explanations emerge for FEMA workers avoiding pro-Trump houses<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1878835\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Federal Emergency Management Agency\">Federal Emergency Management Agency<\/a> supervisor Marn&rsquo;i Washington came under fire last week for advising her team to &ldquo;avoid&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Florida<\/a> houses &ldquo;advertising Trump.&rdquo; This call allegedly came after several hostile encounters with <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">property<\/a> owners.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>On Sunday, Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3225155\/fema-supervisor-who-told-team-to-avoid-homes-with-trump-signs-speaks-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">broke her silence<\/a> in an exclusive interview with the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> and suggested she was only trying &ldquo;to keep the team safe.&rdquo; Two additional FEMA sources corroborated her claim that FEMA employees had been facing numerous threats during disaster recovery, resulting in help having to be pared back to varying extents.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There may be a lot of people that felt the way [Washington] felt, but I don&rsquo;t think anyone else out there was stupid enough to put it in writing,&rdquo; one senior FEMA official told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Republicans slam decision as politically motivated<\/h2>\n<p>While FEMA employees have attempted to justify avoiding pro-Trump homes by claiming many of those property owners were hostile to emergency responders, others believe supporters of President-elect Donald Trump are being politically targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) who serves as a member of the Homeland Security Committee, which oversees FEMA, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s reprehensible how the Biden administration weaponized FEMA to purposely deny Trump-supporting Americans critical aid and assistance during a natural disaster.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gimenez, a career first responder who has administered emergency operations in his own hurricane-prone community, added, &ldquo;We must hold those responsible accountable &amp; ensure those impacted receive the assistance they are rightfully entitled to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3224829\/scalise-promises-house-investigation-after-fema-official-blocked-aid-to-florida-trump-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">vowed<\/a> to launch a House investigation into what he called an &ldquo;outrageous abuse of power.&rdquo; He said, &ldquo;Denying disaster aid to Americans based on their support of President Donald Trump is as disgusting as it gets for an unelected bureaucrat being paid by American taxpayers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1855030970140770445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">posted<\/a> on X, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Threats to FEMA workers<\/h2>\n<p>Reports of emergency responders facing threats are well-documented. One such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/misinformation\/armed-north-carolina-man-arrested-suspicion-making-threats-fema-worker-rcna175287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">incident<\/a> occurred in October in Rutherford County, North Carolina, where a man was charged with &ldquo;going armed to the terror of the public&rdquo; after making threats about harming FEMA employees while carrying a rifle and a handgun.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of those threats, FEMA had to &ldquo;stand down and evacuate the county immediately.&rdquo; The hostile encounter occurred as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DaysofNoahGen6\/status\/1842617757239476317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">false claims<\/a> were being circulated about FEMA planning to bulldoze and seize Chimney Rock.<\/p>\n<p>In Carter County, Tennessee, an armed militia confronted, &ldquo;surrounded,&rdquo; and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4936262-fema-threatened-armed-group-tennessee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">threatened<\/a> FEMA workers. The armed group only left after a volunteer member of the International Alliance of Community Chaplains defused the situation by distancing herself and the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">disaster relief command center<\/a> from FEMA.<\/p>\n<p>Violent threats against FEMA workers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/10\/24266848\/violent-threats-against-fema-swirl-on-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">widespread<\/a> on social media platforms such as TikTok and X as well, with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue declaring it &ldquo;poses a credible risk to public safety.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/08\/fema-hurricane-milton-helene-disinformation?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&amp;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said<\/a> in October that if the threats create &ldquo;so much fear that my staff doesn&rsquo;t want to go out in the field, then we&rsquo;re not going to be in a position where we can help people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Washington, the former FEMA supervisor, admitted that the whistleblowers who leaked her message about avoiding pro-Trump homes &ldquo;are telling you the truth,&rdquo; but argued that the real issue is that FEMA employees are not given the resources and protection they need to be able to provide help to every household.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1878835\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1878835\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEMA workers avoid pro-Trump homes due to safety concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":2368700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/trump-vance-fema-disaster.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[42075,18818,5894,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2368699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disaster-relief","tag-fema","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/trump-vance-fema-disaster.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368703,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368699\/revisions\/2368703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2368700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}