The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will defend her agency’s practices on Capitol Hill next week amid reports that employees were avoiding some Trump-supporting households in hurricane-impacted communities.
Administrator Deanne Criswell is slated to testify before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee during separate hearings Tuesday.
The panels — chaired by Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Sam Graves (R-Mo.), respectively — announced the hearings hours after a woman who said she was fired by FEMA for telling her team not to go to homes with yard signs supporting now-President-elect Donald Trump said that the practice is “not isolated” within the agency.
Transportation Committee leaders said in a press release Tuesday that they wanted to learn more about “FEMA’s preparation, response strategies, and capacity to provide sufficiently prompt relief to victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.”
