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FEMA workers who sounded alarm over nation’s disaster preparedness reinstated after 8 months
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FEMA workers who sounded alarm over nation’s disaster preparedness reinstated after 8 months

The Seattle Times·GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA The Associated Press·about 1 month ago
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved to address staffing issues that triggered concern and uncertainty among and about its workforce, including reinstating employees put on leave for publicly opposing agency policies, and extending contracts for some workers whose terms were set to expire soon. Fourteen FEMA employees who signed a public letter of dissent last August sounding alarms about the nation’s disaster preparedness were reinstated after being put on paid administrative leave for eight months, according to two FEMA staff members. They were among over 190 current and former FEMA employees who signed the letter but were the only active employees who included their names. The letter, known as the “Katrina Declaration,” called out multiple policy decisions by President Donald Trump’s administration that the signatories said risked a catastrophe like the one seen after Hurricane Katrina.…

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