There’s a Bible verse often deployed by clergy encouraging their flocks to tithe: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” It’s sometimes quite true in government as well as in church. And we are seeing a really graphic demonstration of where both hearts and wallets reside in the Trump administration right now, as the Washington Post reports :
The Department of Homeland Security has reassigned dozens of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help vet and process new hires for the government’s mass deportation initiative. …
[F]ive current and former FEMA officials said losing that many people, even for a few months, will greatly slow operations while the already much-reduced agency is juggling multiple o