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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees who signed an open letter slamming the Trump administration’s leadership of the office have been placed on leave, with FEMA leadership subsequently slamming the “bureaucrats who presided over decades of inefficiency” for “objecting to reform.”

More than 190 current and former FEMA employees signed an open letter Monday criticizing the Trump administration over leaders they say lack the qualifications to oversee an agency focused on the nation’s preparation and response to disasters. The letter claimed a catastrophe on par with Hurricane Katrina could unfold due to the current climate of the office.

By Wednesday morning, more than a dozen FEMA employees who signed the letter were placed on le

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