The Trump administration fired Federal Emergency Management Agency workers who signed an open letter slamming the agency’s current direction, according to a report.

On Monday, 182 current and former FEMA employees published an open letter denouncing President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back the agency and shift natural disaster response resources to the states, claiming that it left the country vulnerable to a Hurricane Katrina-scale disaster. Of those who signed, 36 attached their names while the rest remained anonymous out of fear of retaliation. A Wednesday report from the New York Times revealed that nearly all those who attached their names to the letter had been laid off.

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