Politics aside, decent Americans were stunned to learn that some Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) agents were told to avoid certain households in hurricane-ravaged areas if the homes sported signs that supported President Donald Trump.

According to Fox News, the FEMA official who reportedly gave the cowardly and dangerous orders to FEMA field workers says the directive came from above, and was widespread within the ranks of the emergency management agency.

Interestingly, Marn'i Washington, the FEMA official who was fired for telling workers to avoid homes with Trump signs, says the agency is scapegoating her, insisting that the order came from her higher-ups in the Biden-Harris administration.

Regardless, the situation has already sparked investigations into exactly what happened.

What's going on?

Washington insisted that the orders didn't originate from her, rather, she took them from higher-ups during team meetings. She held nothing back in revealing that information.

"Why is this coming down on me? I am the person that jotted down the notes from my superiors and my notation in [Microsoft] Teams chat was exposed from their search capacity team," Washington said.

Fox News noted:

Washington was fired by FEMA after outrage erupted that she had instructed disaster relief workers canvassing in Lake Placid, Florida, after Hurricane Milton to "avoid homes advertising Trump."

The Daily Wire broke the story, saying it had obtained documents sent from Washington to her subordinates in the field instructing them to avoid Trump-supporting homes that were damaged by Hurricane Milton.

At the time of the original report, it was noted that at least 20 homes in the hurricane-ravaged area that had Trump signs in the yard were skipped by FEMA workers.

Fox News added:

FEMA's administrator on employee misconduct, Deanne Criswell, confirmed to Fox News Digital over the weekend that the supervisor was fired and that her actions were "reprehensible."

Not so fast, Washington says

Washington doubled down on her insistence that the orders didn't come from her, adding that she was familiar with the practice happening on the ground in Florida before she was even there.

"So you're telling me these orders came from somebody above?" asked Fox News host Trace Gallagher.

"Correct," Washington replied.

Hopefully, Congress will eventually get to the bottom of exactly what happened and who came up with the idea in the first place, because it's beyond unacceptable.