FEMA Suspends Staffers Who Signed Open Letter Criticizing Trump’s Cuts

Topline The Federal Emergency Management Agency placed more than a dozen staffers on leave Tuesday after they signed an open letter to Congress criticizing the Trump administration’s budget cuts for the agency and warned that the move could cause another Hurricane Katrina-like disaster management failure. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) suspended a dozen staffers on…

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Rewriting The Narrative Of Hurricane Katrina

A police car drives through the empty streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. (Neil … More Alexander) Neil Alexander On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. The storm itself was devastating—but what followed was far worse. The real disaster, many experts argue, wasn’t the wind or water, but the collapse of infrastructure,…

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