More than 180 current and former employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently published a letter warning that further cuts to the agency budget and staff could leave the nation vulnerable to disasters, much like the devastating Hurricane Katrina that ravaged the U.S. south nearly 20 years ago.
“We find ourselves — on the 20th anniversary of a disaster that reshaped the nature of emergency management — only two months removed from a mass casualty flooding event in Kerrville, Texas, which proved the inefficiencies, ineffectiveness, and dangers of the processes and decisions put forth by the current administration,” the group wrote.
“As that disaster unfolded, FEMA’s mission to provide critical support was obstructed by leadership who not only question the agency’s existence but place uninformed cost-cutting above serving the American people and the communities our oath compels us to serve.”
To read the letter in its entirety, visit this link.
