Fema employees were put on leave after signing a criticizing letter Trump Admin

The employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) who signed an open letter slamming the managers of the Trump Administration of the Bureau were placed on leave, with the management of FEMA which later slammed the “bureaucrats who presided for decades of ineffectiveness” to “oppose the reform”.

More than 190 current and former employees of FEMA Signed an open letter on Monday Criticizing the Trump administration, criticizing the leaders who, according to them, lack qualifying to supervise an agency focused on the preparation and response of the country to disasters. The letter said that a disaster tied with Hurricane Katrina could take place due to the current climate of the office.

On Wednesday morning, more than a dozen Fema employees who signed the letter were placed on leave, The Washington Post reported.

“It is not surprising that some of the same bureaucrats who have presided over decades of ineffectiveness are now opposed to the reform,” a spokesperson for Fox News Digital told him when asked about the letter and the employees who were placed on leave. “Change is always difficult. It is especially for those who invest in the status quo, who have forgotten that their duty is towards the American people, not rooted.”

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Internal security secretary Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump have publicly expressed dissatisfaction with FEMA since their entry into office in 2025. (Getty Images / Alex Brandon)

The spokesperson did not reveal the number of employees of FEMA on leave after the publication of the letter.

“Under the Biden administration, the American people have been abandoned while disasters ravaged North Carolina and needed aid was denied on the basis of the affiliation of parties in Florida,” continued the spokesman. “Our obligation is on survivors, not to protect broken systems. Under the direction of secretary Noem, FEMA will return to its mission to help the Americans to their most vulnerable.”

The non -profit organization defends science published on Monday the open letter, directed to the congress, affirming that FEMA is led by people who do not have the “legal qualifications, the approval of the Senate and the demonstrated context” to supervise the preparation and the federal response on the disasters. The letter directly targeted FEMA and managers from the Ministry of Internal Security such as the secretary Kristi Noem.

“The decisions taken by the senior official of the FEMA exercising the functions of the administrator (SOPDA) David Richardson, the former Sopda Cameron Hamilton and the interior security Kristi Noem erod the capacity of FEMA and our state, the local letter, tribes and territorial staff (SLTT), the entry into the revision of the mission, and experienced whose institutional personnel are seen claimed.

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Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was one of the worst disasters to strike the United States in recent history, which led to 1,833 deaths, more than $ 100 billion in damage and thousands of homeless news-Orleans, data from the National Weather Service show. The letter said that such a disaster could once again shake the United States due to the current state of the agency.

“Hurricane Katrina was not only a natural catastrophe, but a plate by man: the inexperience of senior leaders and the deep failure of the federal government to provide timely, unified and effective aid to the survivors who need to manage for themselves for days, and how low-income the indigenous and low-income letters are affected by disaster.

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President Donald Trump visited Texas after a sudden devastating flood in July 2025. (SOMODEVILLA / GETTY Images)

“These failures encouraged the congress to adopt the 2006 law on the reform of the management of post-katrina emergency (PKEMRA), which introduced guarantees to guarantee that these breaches of preparation and response in the event of a disaster would not be repeated,” he continued. “However, two decades later, FEMA adopts leadership processes and structures that echo the conditions that Pkemra was designed to prevent.”

President Donald Trump and Noem both expressed their dissatisfaction with FEMA since he took their respective offices. Trump warned only a few days after its inauguration that the agency would be faced with a calculation of its failures to respond to the devastating floods that rocked the North Carolina when Hurricane Helene torn the United States Southeast in September 2024.

Noem says that the criticism of the Federal response to the floods of Texas is “all politics”: “bad service to our country”

“Get rid of the FEMA of the way it exists today,” said Noem in February on CNN when asked what she would advise Trump if he asked her to delete the agency.

Noem and Trump both pleaded for local officials – such as emergency management directors, mayors, municipal council members and commissioners – to direct the preparation and response in the event of a disaster as opposed to the federal management.

FEMA employees have signed an open letter slamming the management of the Trump administration on the agency. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

The letter published Monday included complete names of at least 35 former and current employees of FEMA, while the majority were “unlisted” signatures.

The signatories disputed specifically with six initiatives of the Trump administration, in particular the “reduction of the capacities of FEMA to carry out its missions”, “the failure to appoint a qualified administrator of FEMA”, the “reduction of the workforce of FEMA disasters” and “censorship of climate science, environmental protection and efforts to ensure that all communities have access to information, resources”.

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The FEMA is led by David Richardson, who replaced the former head of administration of FEMA, Cameron Hamilton, in May after Hamilton’s departure from the agency only a few days after having said to the members of the Congress that he does not think that FEMA should be eliminated.