FEMA Staff Sent Home for Complaining About Staff Cuts…..

By Tuesday evening, FEMA’s office of the administrator had sent several people letters informing them that, effective immediately, they were on an administrative leave, operating “in a non-duty status while continuing to receive pay and benefits.”

“It is not surprising that some of the same bureaucrats who presided over decades of inefficiency are now objecting to reform. … Our obligation is to survivors, not to protecting broken systems,” a FEMA spokesperson said. “Under the leadership of Secretary Noem, FEMA will return to its mission of assisting Americans at their most vulnerable.”

Last month, the administration put nearly 140 Environmental Protection Agency employees on leave after they sent their own letter of dissent….

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The open show of resistance from FEMA employees was the latest example of federal workers speaking out against the Trump administration’s actions and policies, in many cases putting their jobs at risk. Called the “Bethesda Declaration” movement, after the Maryland area where the National Institutes of Health is headquartered, it began in June when NIH employees issued a letter modeled after Director Jay Bhattacharya’s dissent against the government’s coronavirus policies in 2020. Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation followed suit….

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In addtion to budget cuts?

Trump & Co. are going after unions that offer empoyee’s some sort of work protection….