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In any other administration this would be front page news for days on end. Members of Congress would be calling for his resignation.

Have you seen this man? In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found.

NEW from me — I wrote about FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson, who has been completely silent and out of view since deadly floods devastated Texas last week, and spoke to staffers about what it's like to respond to a disaster with no leader.

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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again
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The 6 month thing is the time in which the debris removal should be completed and completely different from the cost share I’m pretty sure! And idk if they requested additional time to complete that work, or just requested the 100% cost share. I’m no debris expert ahaha

It goes back to a 75% fed share/25% non fed share, it’s not like it’s completely gone.

It just goes back to a 75% federal cost share though, which is the usual cost share

Do you know of any other time where a significant amount of people left?

Imagine watching it in a room with 100 people and everyone is laughing

He was also one of the far right politicians using his platform to spread disinformation about FEMA funding during the Helene response.

Not a good guy.

Do not frame Cameron Hamilton as some kind of resistance hero for simply saying FEMA should exist.

He accepted a position he was not qualified for and has spent months overseeing the illegal dismantling of key parts of the agency to the detriment of the safety of the American public.

My work here is done.

Peace be with you.

The dismissal of NCCC/FEMA Corps has been grating on me even more than other firings.

These are young people effectively volunteering their time for public service, often working in difficult conditions& genuinely helping the ppl in this country most in need.

You can’t ask for better than that.

God. This just sucks.

It sucks so much. I did it after I graduated from college in 2016 because I didn’t know what I was going to do after graduation. I did FEMACorps, and I still work for FEMA to this day. It changed my life for the better, I literally don’t know where I would be now without it

Destroy DOGE, undo every bit of its work, and render every DOGE employee unemployable in their professional field for life. End their careers and shame them in every way we can. And make them see that we fixed the government and everything they did was for naught.

People to deserve to know when a hurricane is coming toward them and deserve to not die from the flu and deserve to have an egg sandwich sometimes

It has to be!

People would actually care about gutting FEMA if they understood it meant the possibility of things like not receiving tornado warnings, no search and rescue teams coming to save them in an earthquake, no flood insurance, no extra medical help, no money to rebuild.

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.

Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.

But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.

They aren’t firing for a reason.

Okay good to know, clearly i have no idea and I’m a mess lol

Yeah sorry its been a day lol

Basically every single FEMA program was included in the list by Politico earlier today www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

@ocasio-cortez.house.gov

This isn’t what the email offers in any case. It’s not severance. You have to stay on staff until your resignation date in 7 months—if you leave earlier you don’t get the pay—and there’s no guarantee even in the text that they’ll put you on paid leave during that time.

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

If you say we abandon red states, you kill a lot of dear friends of mine so fuck right off with that. We don't leave gerrymandered, vulnerable, decent people behind because of a zip code, you sanctimonious dicks.

Something that basically no one outside of emergency management understands is the distinction between failures in how a response is being managed versus pre-disaster mitigation/ preparedness failures.

In other words, you have to engage with disasters *all* the time, not just when things are on fire.