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 The Federalist Wire: ... The House Oversight Committee on Monday spotlighted whistleblower allegations that FEMA discriminated against Trump supporters during disaster response efforts following this year’s devastating hurricanes. These revelations have raised serious concerns about political bias within the federal agency tasked with aiding Americans during times of crisis. As the 118th Congress concludes, the committee shared its “TOP OVERSIGHT HEARING MOMENTS” on X, highlighting key investigations of the past two years. Among them was a story first reported by The Daily Wire in November, which revealed that a FEMA supervisor in Florida had instructed relief workers to skip homes displaying support for Donald Trump. The committee noted that a whistleblower also informed Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) of similar incidents occurring in Georgia. “In October 2024, [The Daily Wire] exposed that a FEMA employee directed workers to bypass pro-Trump homes. During a hearing on that t...

  Matt Van Swol @matt_vanswol · 23h #BREAKING : A North Carolina resident requesting $200 for a broken window was denied by FEMA. Instead, FEMA offered her a 2-room hotel voucher for 30 days in the South Park Marriot Hotel. This stay would cost taxpayers over $14,000. Who is responsible for such wacky decisions? 

 Washington Examiner: An oversight letter sent Thursday by Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman, and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) demands the Federal Emergency Management Agency provide a detailed briefing on the agency’s response to Trump supporters being skipped during canvassing. The committee, which has legislative and oversight jurisdiction over FEMA, will hold a hearing Tuesday, Nov. 19, to question FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on the agency’s failure to provide assistance to everyone in need. ... This would be a scandal which ever party was in power if they ignored those in need of the other party. 

 Townhall: The former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supervisor fired for reportedly directing disaster relief workers to avoid hurricane-hit homes in Florida sporting signs supporting Donald Trump is now spilling the beans on the department's discrimination scandal. According to the ex-employee, this was not an "isolated incident," as the agency insists, and the discriminatory practice is happening elsewhere in other disaster areas. In fact, it's widespread FEMA policy to discriminate against "politically hostile" houses when allocating aid, she said. ... This is shaping up to be a political scandal for the Biden administration.   Congress needs to investigate and get to the bottom of these allegations.

  American Action News: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is short on resources after spending hundreds of millions on migrant services and “equity” programs, failed to answer roughly half of the phone calls made by survivors of Hurricanes Milton and Helene. Between Oct. 14 and Oct. 20, days after Milton hit Florida on Oct. 9, FEMA received 900,000 calls from survivors, but failed to answer 47% of them, Politico reported . The large number of missed calls was partially attributable to staff and resource shortages at the agency. FEMA, however, spent nearly $1 billion on providing services to illegal migrants and allocated $12 million for a grant program designed to increase equity in disaster responses by making greater investments in communities with high concentrations of racial or sexual minorities. The 53% of survivors who did have their calls answered waited an average of one hour and five minutes to speak with someone from FEMA, according to Politico. Dur...

  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: @RepMTG · Linemen just went on strike in NC after NOT being paid for 8 weeks by FEMA! Kamala’s admin sent electrical transformers and hundreds of billions to Ukraine and FEMA takes care of migrants. But won’t pay our linemen, who want to work & keep helping NC! This makes no sense.  FEMA and the Biden administration should be paying those who are helping North Carolina recover from a devastating storm.  Why are they putting Ukraine ahead of Americans? 

 Blaze: If you plan on spreading awareness as to where a government agency is really sending their money, be prepared for some serious pushback. Independent journalist Breanna Morello is dealing with this firsthand after saying that FEMA is giving money to illegal immigrants instead of hurricane victims. “Throughout the week, I’ve been reporting that FEMA has been taking over a billion of our dollars that’s intended for disasters and shifting it towards the illegal invasion going on right now in our country,” Morello said in a video posted to her social media. “Now, FEMA is addressing my report on their website calling it a ‘rumor.’” ... “They’re saying that this is false, no money is being diverted from the disaster response,” Morello continued, before deciding to reveal her source. “My source behind my reporting is actually FEMA itself. If you go to the same website, you search these headlines, guess what? They’re on their own website. I pulled all of this information from their ...