Staffers within the Federal Emergency Management Agency say the nation’s natural-disaster-response division is a manmade disaster.

As of May, a third of FEMA’s full-time staff had been pushed out or left because of hostility from the Trump administration; Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem has said she wants to eliminate the agency. Noem, who oversees FEMA as part of DHS, has been micromanaging it, requiring her personal review of any contract more than $100,000 — a time-sucking exercise that staffers say causes significant delays. The current acting FEMA administrator, David Richardson, has no experience in disaster response and told staffers earlier this year he did not even know there was a hurricane season. He also told them he would “run right over you” if they interfere

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