WASHINGTON –– With hurricane season underway and in the aftermath of catastrophic flooding in Texas and Wisconsin in recent weeks, dozens of current and former Federal Emergency Management Agency officials — including workers with decades of experience and a former senior official who served as the agency’s chief of staff during two presidential administrations — signed onto an open letter to the Trump administration and Congress warning that the president’s cuts to emergency and disaster response, as well as his oft-expressed desire to eliminate the federal agency, leave the United States exposed to a catastrophe on the level of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.

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Dozens of current and former Federal Emergency Management Agency officials signed onto an open letter warn

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