Nearly 200 current and former FEMA employees are warning Congress about recent changes to the agency.

In a letter called the “Katrina Declaration,” workers accused the administration of eroding FEMA’s response capabilities and appointing unqualified leadership. They warned of the possibility of failures similar to those during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The group wants FEMA to become a Cabinet-level independent agency protected from political interference.

"Hurricane Katrina was not just a natural disaster, but a man-made one: the inexperience of senior leaders and the profound failure by the federal government to deliver timely, unified, and effective aid to those in need left survivors to fend for themselves for days, and highlighted how Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities a

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