FEMA Employee Fired for Telling Staffers To Skip Homes With Trump Signs Says She Is Being Scapegoated

The former FEMA employee, Marn’i Washington, says her team in Florida was simply following standard practices.

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People gather at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at A.C. Reynolds High School at Asheville, North Carolina. AP/Makiya Seminera

A Federal Emergency Management Agency manager, Marn’i Washington, says she was fired as a scapegoat to avoid “retribution” from President Trump after hurricane relief aides in Florida and the Carolinas were told to skip some of his supporters’ homes because of “political hostility.” 

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