FEMA Workers Put on Leave After Letter Criticizes Trump AdministrationPaul Bois 27 Aug 2025
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 people letters on Tuesday evening “informing them that, effective immediately, they were on an administrative leave, operating “’n a non-duty status while continuing to receive pay and benefits.'”
“It is not surprising that some of the same bureaucrats who presided over decades of inefficiency are now objecting to reform. … Our obligation is to survivors, not to protecting broken systems,” a FEMA spokesperson said. “Under the leadership of Secretary Noem, FEMA will return to its mission of assisting Americans at their most vulnerable.”
The move comes after the administration put nearly 140 EPA employees on leave after they signed an open letter criticizing current policy.
Jeremy Edwards, a former press secretary for FEMA, said the “fact that 180 people signed on to the letter, with a supermajority of them still working in the building, and dozens of those people wanted to attach their real names, signifies the severity of the problem.”
“They are that scared of us being so inadequately unprepared. It speaks a lot to the situation right now,” Edwards said.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/27/fema-workers-put-on-leave-after-letter-criticizes-trump-administration/
