US EditionFEMA Employees Who Signed Letter Critical of Trump Unsuspended, Then Resuspended
The Trump administration reversed the reinstatement of 14 FEMA employees suspended for signing a whistleblower letter warning about risks to disaster response, officials said.
- Last week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reinstated more than a dozen workers after three months of forced leave and a misconduct probe.
- The controversy began in August when more than 190 current and former FEMA officials signed the Katrina Declaration, and FEMA launched misconduct investigations in September, placing staff on paid leave.
- Virginia Case, FEMA external affairs officer, returned to work Wednesday and said she had considered resigning to avoid being blacklisted from federal service.
- FEMA management told staff agency lawyers determined signing the letter was protected by whistleblower laws, yet some reinstated staff fear further retaliation despite legal protections.
- Echoing earlier personnel actions, the Trump administration suspended or fired more than 100 EPA employees for dissent; FEMA and DHS did not respond to CNN, and some reinstated workers say the situation is still evolving.
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FEMA employees who signed letter critical of Trump unsuspended, then resuspended
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) staffers who signed a letter critical of the Trump administration were unsuspended, then resuspended when the administration learned about their reinstatement. “CNN reporting revealed that 14 FEMA employees previously placed on leave for misconduct were wrongly and without authorization reinstated by bureaucrats acting outside of their authority,” a Department of [...]
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In a reversal, FEMA won’t reinstate suspended workers
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday that it was revoking the reinstatement of 14 employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who have been on administrative leave since August, when they wrote a letter to Congress warning that President Donald Trump was gutting disaster response in the United States.
FEMA workers reinstated after suspension and investigation over letter criticizing Trump’s overhaul of agency
A group of FEMA workers has been reinstated after three months of forced leave and an investigation into alleged misconduct for signing an open letter to Congress that criticized the Trump administration’s overhaul of the disaster relief agency and warned it could put American lives in danger.
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