Employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) warned Monday that the nation’s top disaster relief agency is acting to reverse critical progress it’s made in the two decades since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, with potentially dangerous consequences.
More than 180 people signed an open letter to Congress to oppose what they alleged was a reduction in FEMA’s capability to perform its missions, including the elimination of life-saving risk management and preparedness programs, the depletion of FEMA’s workforce, and the “censorship” of climate science and environmental protection to the detriment of the American people.
