On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem claimed that FEMA “is much more responsive under President Trump to people’s needs than it has been under previous administrations.” Speaking at the public third meeting of the FEMA Review Council, a group appointed by Donald Trump at the beginning of this year to oversee reform of the agency, Noem encouraged those listening to “be vocal” about positive interactions with the Trump administration.

“Tell the story of how different FEMA has been the last seven, eight months under [Trump’s] leadership than it was previous to that,” she said.

It was a notable instruction, as this week has been anything but complimentary for FEMA. On Monday, more than 190 current and former FEMA employees signed onto a public letter cr

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