Donald Trump’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has placed some agency staff on leave after they signed a public letter of dissent this week. The missive warns that federal officials’ sweeping overhaul of the agency puts the US at risk of another disaster like 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.
“Dismantling the agency piecemeal while threatening to do so entirely will render such a tragedy, once again, inevitable,” Jennifer Forester, a Fema analyst who was placed on leave yesterday, told the Guardian.
