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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Dharna Noor

Trump administration puts Fema workers back on administrative leave

a flag outside of a building
Fema headquarters in Washington DC. Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP

The Trump administration is reversing the reinstatement of workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) who were placed on administrative leave after writing an open letter of dissent.

Fema in August suspended 14 workers who signed a petition warning that cuts to the agency were putting the nation at risk of repeating the mistakes made during the botched response to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

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