News of a FEMA worker’s order to skip houses in Florida where signs were posted supporting President-elect Donald Trump is “outrageous,” and raises questions about the agency’s culture, political analyst Mark Halperin said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“You don’t need to be a partisan to understand, as FEMA leadership has said, that this is completely in contradiction to their mission,” Halperin told Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “It’s amazing that such a thing could happen. It’s kind of amazing that somebody would write such a thing down.”

“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said in a statement, announcing that the worker, who has not been named, has been fired. “This was reprehensible.”

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