FEMA chief to face questions about government's response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton
The administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell, is set to face questions from House lawmakers about the federal government's response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton that caused catastrophic damage in the Southeast.
WASHINGTON — The administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell, is set to face questions from House lawmakers Tuesday about the federal government's response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton that caused catastrophic damage in the Southeast.
Criswell will testify before a House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee first, at 10 a.m. ET, and then the House Oversight Committee at 2 p.m. ET.
House Republicans are expected to grill the FEMA chief about revelations that an agency worker said she was told by higher-ups to skip over houses with Trump signs in Florida. Criswell fired the worker and said she found the employee's actions “reprehensible." But the worker, Marn’i Washington, has gone on Fox News and other news outlets to allege there was a directive from her superiors not to go to homes with Trump signage as a way to avoid conflict.
Three House committees are investigating the reports, including the House Homeland Security Committee, which wants to speak to leaders in the FEMA regional office.
“While today’s hearing will focus on FEMA, the issue at hand is part of a larger problem: the urgent need to hold the unelected, unaccountable federal workforce accountable to the American people and to the duly elected President of the United States," House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is expected to say, according to excerpts from his written remarks.
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