The House Oversight Committee held a hearing Tuesday with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell on controversy around a FEMA employee telling staff to avoid houses with signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump. Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) had five minutes to ask, asking about the agency’s supposed “open secret” of political discrimination.

Rope. The Donalds began by asking about the firing of Marn’i Washington, the FEMA employee who allegedly issued the order to jump houses with Trump sign.

“She had given several interviews where she claimed that avoidance of ‘politically hostile’ homes is common throughout FEMA. Is this a practice at FEMA?” asked rep. Donald’s.

Criswell responded that it was not, and “nothing in any of our policies, our training or the information sent out to our field workers to avoid any home for any reason, especially not because of political affiliation.”

The Florida Congressman then cited one article from the New York Post in which an anonymous FEMA employee suggested that the recent controversy was not new and that white or conservative-dominated areas had been avoided by FEMA “for years.”

“So (administrator; Donalds mistakenly referred to Criswell as ‘ambassador’), this is a statement given to the Post by a FEMA employee. What’s your response to that statement?” Donalds asked.

“We have investigated this incident, and it remains under investigation,” Criswell responded, adding that the agency is working with the inspector general to determine the truth of the whistleblower’s statement and suggested that no evidence of political discrimination beyond the current scandal has been shown. so far.

As a result, Donalds asked Criswell if she was “prepared to turn over communications between your supervisors and their field representatives and the highest level management at FEMA to this committee,” to which she said yes.

“Chairman, I want to say that it is very clear that the Administrator is more than willing to share all communications with the Oversight Committee regarding various communications with field volunteers, volunteer staff, (and) supervisors at FEMA headquarters here in Washington, DC,” Donalds concluded .