Trump administration suspends FEMA employees who warned about disaster response

FEMA has suspended at slightest 30 employees aft they warned that spending limits, staffing cuts, and gaps successful enactment wounded the agency’s quality to respond to disasters. The employees received emails notifying them that they’d been enactment connected administrative permission connected Tuesday night, according to The New York Times, which reviewed copies of the email. FEMA didn’t instantly respond to an enquiry from The Verge to corroborate the suspensions oregon respond to allegations successful the letter.

With the deadly July 4th flooding successful Kerrville, Texas, “FEMA’s ngo to supply captious enactment was obstructed by enactment who not lone question the agency’s beingness but spot uninformed cost-cutting supra serving the American radical and the communities our oath compels america to serve,” the letter says. 

This isn’t the archetypal clip the Trump medication has cracked down connected national employees who’ve voiced concerns astir their agency’s quality to conscionable its mission. The Environmental Protection Agency placed 144 workers connected administrative leave aft they penned a letter to EPA head Lee Zeldin saying, “EPA nether your enactment volition not support communities from hazardous chemicals and unsafe drinking water, but alternatively volition summation risks to nationalist wellness and safety.”