More than a dozen of the senior leaders at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including those with the most experience in leading disaster recovery, have either been fired or have resigned, thinning its management ranks weeks ahead of hurricane season.
The departures in the senior ranks are in addition to job cuts and resignations of about 1,000 of the agency’s roughly 17,000 employees.
Those changes represent a significant loss at an agency that was already struggling with personnel shortages as it tried to help communities recover from catastrophic storms and wildfires in western North Carolina and Los Angeles, among other missions.
Soon after his return to the White House, President Trump mused about formally disbanding FEMA. The departures suggest that the agency is already being thinned out.
Under the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation offer, more than 800 FEMA employees are leaving, according to several people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. They include the agency’s top lawyer and his deputy, as well as senior officials in charge of human resources, information technology and reducing the risk communities face from future disasters.
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