Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
#Trump puts #FEMA employees put on leave after criticizing the administration in open letter
About 180 current & former FEMA staffers sent a letter on Monday to members of #Congress & other officials protesting the agency’s leadership & direction.

#EmergencyManagement#Climate#ExtremeWeather#PublicDisservice#FederalGovernment #law #labor #kakistocracy #idiocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/26/fema-employees-leave-trump-administration-letter/
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

The #Trump admin placed #FEMA employees on leave Tuesday after they signed an open letter of #dissent about the agency’s leadership….
About 180 current & former FEMA staffers sent a letter on Monday to members of #Congress & other officials, arguing the current leaders’ inexperience & approach harms FEMA’s mission & could result in a #disaster on the level of #HurricaneKatrina.

#NaturalDisasters#Climate#ExtremeWeather#PublicDisservice#FederalGovernment #law #labor #kakistocracy #idiocracy
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

By Tuesday evening, the #FEMA office of the administrator had sent several people letters informing them that effectively immediately, they were on an administrative leave, operating “in a non-duty status while continuing to receive pay & benefits.”

Last month, the #Trump admin also put nearly 140 #EPA employees on leave after they sent their own letter of #dissent.

#NaturalDisasters#Climate#ExtremeWeather#PublicDisservice#FederalGovernment #law #labor #kakistocracy #idiocracy
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

At least 2 #FEMA staff members who had been part of the federal response to July’s #Texas #flooding #disaster have now been placed on leave, acc/to an agency employee & another person familiar wi/ the situation.
One employee who manages cases for all #disasters, including TX helped orchestrate the letter.… She has now been placed on leave & pulled off her disaster casework.

#Trump#Climate#ExtremeWeather#PublicDisservice#FederalGovernment #law #labor #kakistocracy #idiocracy
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

“The fact that 180 people signed onto the letter, with a supermajority of them still working in the building, & dozens of those people wanted to attach their real names signifies the severity of the problem,” Jeremy Edwards, a former press secretary for #FEMA who signed the letter, said in an interview. “They are that scared of us being so inadequately unprepared. It speaks a lot to the situation right now.”

#Trump#Disasters#Climate#ExtremeWeather#PublicDisservice#USGovernment #law #labor