ICYMI: McClain Presses FEMA Administrator on Partisan Discrimination During Relief Efforts
WASHINGTON – At a committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, questioned FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell about reports of FEMA officials directing disaster relief away from hurricane victims who displayed specific political signage on their properties. She raised concerns over why un-elected FEMA bureaucrats are withholding disaster relief to victims and making life-altering decisions based on their personal political beliefs rather than serving Americans, who have faced devastating loss, without bias.
Watch her line of questioning here.
Read an excerpt from the transcript of McClain’s questioning below:
Congresswoman McClain: Do you know if anything happened to her supervisor?
Administrator Criswell: This is currently under investigation, the only written evidence we have is from Ms. Washington.
Congresswoman McClain: So, [you] terminated Ms. Washington three weeks after you were made aware of it. Thank God that you were made aware of it, or this pattern could have continuously gone on…You have 22,000 people I'm sure you have a lot of middle management, right? …you have layers of management before it gets to you, correct?
Administrator Criswell: We follow a very…
Congresswoman McClain: That’s a pretty simple question, do you have layers of management before it gets to you?
Administrator Criswell: We follow a very, you know, accepted chain of command.
Congresswoman McClain: You have a chain of command before it gets to you, but you have no clue about what happened to that chain of command and why somebody would let that happen under their watch?
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