EXCLUSIVE: Home­land Secu­ri­ty To Inter­view Sec­ond FEMA Employ­ee About Trump Guid­ance

The House Home­land Secu­ri­ty Com­mit­tee plans to inter­view a sec­ond FEMA employ­ee about a for­mer supervisor’s instruc­tion for relief work­ers to skip homes in Flori­da dis­play­ing Trump flags or signs, accord­ing to a let­ter first shared with The Dai­ly Wire. 

Home­land Secu­ri­ty Chair Mark Green (R‑TN) sent the let­ter Thurs­day after­noon to Chad Her­shey, the super­vi­sor of  for­mer FEMA employ­ee Marn’i Wash­ing­ton, who ordered work­ers in Lake Placid to “avoid homes adver­tis­ing Trump.” The request to Her­shey comes one day after the com­mit­tee inter­viewed Wash­ing­ton, who issued the Trump home guid­ance both ver­bal­ly and in a text mes­sage. 

“The Com­mit­tee seeks to uncov­er the com­plete nature and extent of FEMA’s mis­con­duct in with­hold­ing fed­er­al assis­tance from Amer­i­cans based on polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tion,” Green wrote. “Your obser­va­tions and expe­ri­ence as Ms. Washington’s Task Force Lead for the Dis­as­ter Sur­vival Assis­tance Task Force are vital to the Committee’s inves­ti­ga­tion.”

The let­ter was also signed by Reps. Dan Bish­op (R‑NC) and Antho­ny D’Esposito (R‑NY). 

Cit­ing reports from The Dai­ly Wire, Green wrote that Her­shey should sched­ule a tran­scribed inter­view with the com­mit­tee by Decem­ber 9. Green indi­cat­ed that the com­mit­tee want­ed to ask Her­shey about com­ments she made in inter­views after she was fired over the guid­ance, say­ing that he had direct­ed her to issue the guid­ance. 

“In an inter­view fol­low­ing her ter­mi­na­tion, Ms. Wash­ing­ton claimed that her instruc­tions to FEMA work­ers were not excep­tion­al, but rather that you, as her direct super­vi­sor, instruct­ed her to avoid homes that had signs bear­ing sup­port for Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald J. Trump to avoid ‘com­mu­ni­ty trends of polit­i­cal hos­til­i­ty,’” Green wrote. 

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When first con­tact­ed by The Dai­ly Wire, Her­shey said that he was “aware” of the sit­u­a­tion with the Trump guid­ance, and that it was being looked into. 

“We are aware of it and we are tak­ing prop­er action in this sit­u­a­tion cur­rent­ly,” Her­shey said last month, adding that “we are tak­ing action at this moment regard­ing the sit­u­a­tion that you’re talk­ing about.” 

Whistle­blow­ers told The Dai­ly Wire that at least 20 homes were skipped due to the guid­ance. Those homes have since been vis­it­ed by relief work­ers, accord­ing to FEMA Admin­is­tra­tor Deanne Criswell. 

Since the first sto­ry broke, oth­er whistle­blow­ers have alleged FEMA mis­con­duct toward Trump sup­port­ers in Geor­gia and North Car­oli­na.