The Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, DC. J. David Ake/Getty Images

In a dramatic about-face, the Trump administration on Monday re-suspended more than a dozen FEMA employees mere hours after CNN broke the news that they’d been reinstated to the agency following a three-month exile and a probe into alleged misconduct.

The staffers were put on administrative leave in August for signing a blistering open letter to Congress – dubbed the “Katrina Declaration” – warning that the administration’s overhaul of the disaster relief agency was putting American lives at risk.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, confirmed the reversal Monday afternoon.

“CNN reporting revealed that 14 FEMA employees previously placed on leave for misconduct wer

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