According to current and former employees, the Trump administration has turned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) into a “doom loop” of bureaucracy and red tape, completely destroying morale and creating an environment that is “antithetical to efficiency”. While the Trump administration has called for letting states take the lead in disaster response in order to streamline the process, current FEMA leadership has done the exact opposite, making the agency less effective.
This has resulted in several high-profile resignations and warnings from nearly 200 current and former FEMA employees that the agency’s current direction could lead to another disaster on the level of Hurricane Katrina. The current situation is bad, but it seems to be getting worse.
