FEMA agrees to outside investigation into avoiding homes with Trump signs

Reporter: Claire Galt Writer: Elyssa Morataya
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FEMA‘s administrator has agreed to an outside investigation to find out why her employee gave orders to deny Trump supporters aid after Hurricane Milton.

The House oversight committee grilled Deanne Criswell for 5 hours on Tuesday.

She said this was an isolated incident in Lake Placid. However, Congressman Greg Steube, who represents Charlotte County, told Wink News that 35 people from his district reached out to his office saying they were skipped by FEMA.

“She agreed to do a general investigation, which is great because it’s not internal,” said Stube. “It’s an independent inspector general who’s going to do the investigation that’s not a part of FEMA. Just has oversight over FEMA, so it gives that outside people the ability to question people, put people on their own, depose people. So I feel much more comfortable about the IG do an investigation than FEMA itself investigating it.”

Congressman Steube said he’s working to get WINK News more information about those possible victims.

The FEMA team leader who gave the orders to skip over homes with Trump signs was fired.

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