Bulk Of FEMA Terminations So Far Aimed At Climate, EJ Positions: "They're Trying To Systematically Erase Everything"
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Another internal email, sent on Wednesday, told rank-and-file employees to “scrub” terms from agency records that Trump highlighted in his executive orders on climate change and diversity. Any document with taboo phrases will be put into an archive folder that will be deleted in three years. “They’re trying to systematically erase everything that happened before,” said one FEMA employee who is posted at a disaster site and has been pulled away from helping survivors get their damaged homes inspected so repairs can begin. “It is taking away from time doing on-the-ground disaster-recovery work.”
The firings could impair an agency that has faced chronic staffing shortages amid intensifying disasters and heightened scrutiny. FEMA employees were so overwhelmed in October responding to severe hurricane damage in six states that the agency was forced to seek help from other federal agencies. “The next time there’s a major catastrophic event that requires extensive manpower, FEMA’s going to be at a disadvantage,” said Michael Coen, the agency’s chief of staff in the Biden administration.
Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement that “FEMA was actually short-staffed before Elon and his minions went to FEMA headquarters, and now the agency will be further hampered.”
FEMA confirmed to E&E News that it had fired more than 200 employees and that other agencies in the Department of Homeland Security had fired another 200.
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