Donald Trump is returning to the White House with a long to-do list.
The Biden-Harris administration is leaving a mess behind.
And James Comer exposed one awful situation that Donald Trump will clean up.
Donald Trump is being sent to Washington, D.C. to clean up scandals like FEMA
President-elect Donald Trump was given a mandate from voters to clean up Washington, D.C.
Ending the weaponization of the federal government will be at the top of his to-do list when he takes office next year.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been under fire for its botched response to Hurricane Helene and Milton this fall.
Storm victims in the six southeastern states ravaged by Helene reported that FEMA was nowhere to be found.
That increasingly appears like it was an intentional decision that came from the top of the agency.
FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington gave out an order to disaster relief workers in Lake Placid, Florida to skip over homes in Lake Placid, Florida if they had Trump signs or flags.
A whistleblower said she gave this order verbally and on the Microsoft Teams messaging app.
FEMA workers skipped over at least 20 homes in Lake Placid in October and November during the recovery from Hurricane Milton.
House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) told Newsmax the FEMA scandal is what voters sent Trump to Washington, D.C. to clean up.
“We had heard rumors and reports that FEMA was biased against conservatives, biased against Republicans,” Comer said. “We’ve heard that about, frankly, every organization and every agency in the Biden-Harris administration. […] We’ve had other employees come forward and say stuff they haven’t gone public yet, but that would lead me to believe that this is a pattern here.”
FEMA is an example of the larger problem in Washington, D.C.
FEMA called the discrimination against Trump supporters in Florida an “isolated incident” and fired Washington.
But she claimed that the order to skip over homes that showed Trump support was given to her by the agency’s leadership.
FEMA also reportedly skipped the homes of storm victims in western North Carolina after historic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene.
“This is so bad that we would have an agency like FEMA that’s supposed to be there in America’s time of need,” Comer explained. “You know, after a natural disaster. And they’re biased against Republicans. This is what’s wrong with Washington. This is why the American people stood up and voted the Democrats out of power, out of the White House, out of the Senate, and out of the House because of examples like this.”
Comer is hauling FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell in to testify before the House Oversight Committee after her agency’s scandal.
She is one of the many federal bureaucrats on the chopping block after Trump is inaugurated next year.
“I hope that Donald Trump fires a lot of people,” Comer said. “There aren’t very many people in Washington that should feel safe right now, especially if you’re the leader of an agency.”
FEMA will be one of the many federal agencies where leadership will be replaced during the incoming Trump administration.
