FEMA Workers ‘Afraid’ to Call Out Politicized Work
11th November 2024
The complaints directed at FEMA leadership keep coming weeks after Hurricane Helene ravaged North Carolina and the 2024 presidential election flipped U.S. leadership.
Savage Operations founder Adam Smith, whose group assisted hurricane relief, claimed FEMA led with a culture of “fear” under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris amid the reported skipping of homes with Donald Trump campaign signs.
“And one of the interesting thing was, is it was stated that, Hey, we can’t have our fingerprints on this, which I think leads back to the actual question, which is, What sort of culture and what sort of fear is there in place at some of the lower levels of FEMA personnel where they’re afraid they’re going to lose their job if they don’t speak up against actions that are blatantly not aligned with what the organization is supposed to be doing?” Smith said in a TV interview, as reported by Mediaite.