FEMA Worker Warns: Disaster Aid Could Be ‘Severed’ Thanks To Mass Firings
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“It's almost like a vendetta: ‘I don't like this place, so I'm going to gut it,’" the whistleblower told HuffPost. "It's just so infuriating."
A whistleblower at the Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that disaster aid could be “severed” amid a wave of firings under President Donald Trump.
The employee, a military veteran who now manages a team at FEMA, told HuffPost the agency has been crippled after more than 200 employees were fired over the past few weeks. The whistleblower has requested anonymity over fears of retaliation.
“Morale is really low,” the employee said. “It’s dismal. When you’re talking to people, they don’t know what to do. There’s mass confusion.”
That mass confusion began last week when the Department of Homeland Security announced it had fired more than 200 probationary employees at FEMA. The firings are part of a larger gutting of the nation’s workforce being overseen by unelected billionaire Elon Musk, who has vowed to strip the federal government of its power and much of its workforce as he heads up the new, so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
Along with the firings, the Trump administration has sought to freeze FEMA funds. And last week, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would be creating a council to review FEMA, citing without evidence what it called “political bias” within the agency.
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