Employees with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were put on leave Tuesday after they signed an open letter criticizing the Trump administration.

The non-profit group Stand Up for Science, which published the letter criticizing the administration, confirmed that several employees were put on administrative leave.

“We can confirm multiple FEMA employees who publicly signed the Katrina Declaration have been placed on administrative leave,” the group said.

The letter from 180 current and former FEMA employees said that the current administration’s policies could result in another disaster like Hurricane Katrina – the tipping point for former President George W. Bush’s second term. According to the Washington Post , FEMA’s office of the administrator sent several peop

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