US EditionFEMA workers put on leave after letter criticizing Trump administration, Washington Post reports
More than 180 FEMA employees oppose staff and program cuts, citing reduced disaster response capacity and policy changes including contract approvals and reassignments.
- On Tuesday, FEMA placed several employees on paid administrative leave after they signed a letter criticizing recent agency policies and leadership.
- On Monday, a letter was sent to Congress and the FEMA Review Council by agency employees, cautioning that the Trump administration’s extensive reorganization might undermine disaster response efforts.
- Over 180 individuals, including both current and former FEMA employees, expressed their opposition to staff reductions, reassignment practices, and the absence of qualified leadership by signing a letter criticsizing these issues.
- Similar suspensions occurred at the EPA, where about 140 employees were placed on leave for signing opposition letters, demonstrating broader staff dissent amid agency reforms.
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Some FEMA employees who signed dissent letter put on leave, group says
Some employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were placed on leave on Tuesday after signing their names to a public letter criticizing the agency’s leadership, according to a group that helped facilitate the letter’s publication. More than 180 current and former FEMA staffers signed a public letter warning that the Trump administration is…
U.S. FEMA Employees Put on Leave After Criticizing Trump - teleSUR English
They wrote a letter to Congress members, warning that the agency’s current leadership lacks experience. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that some U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees were put on leave after they signed an open letter criticizing the agency’s leadership, RELATED: Trump Plans to Deploy National Guard Troops to Chicago Around 180 current and former FEMA employees wrote a letter on Monday to Congress me…
FEMA workers put on leave after signing letter criticizing Trump leadership
Several Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workers have been placed on leave after signing a scathing letter to Congress. The letter criticizes Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her boss, President Donald Trump, as well as other FEMA leaders. The letter, titled the "Katrina declaration,” says that since January 2025, FEMA has been "under the leadership of individuals lacking legal qualifications, Senate approval and the demonst…
'They are scared': Trump admin sidelines FEMA employees after leadership criticism
After signing onto a letter pushing back against the Trump administration’s cuts and management of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, more than a dozen staffers at the agency were placed on leave Tuesday.The letter received 191 signatures in total, most of them anonymous, and warned that the “decisions made by the current administration” were posing a great risk to the agency’s ability to adequately respond to disasters. Every staffer plac…
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