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A former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employee said the guidance to skip over houses with Trump signs and banners is part of a larger diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issue with the agency, saying it was “completely avoidable.”
Chelsea Nied, a former FEMA employee who was deployed 66 times in 22 states on the front lines of natural disasters, told Fox News Digital that Marn’i Washington, who has since been fired as a FEMA supervisor, should have refused the direction after spotting the “glaring political line” over instructing relief workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump.”
“What was really striking about the list that Washington sent to relief workers was that you have a glaring political line after seeing common directions, like drink water, be hydrated, communicate,” she said. “And in my experience, particularly from …