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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(13,028 posts)
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 05:08 AM 12 hrs ago

Trump voting states to lose FEMA disaster recovery workforce

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fema-2674903930/

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is gutting its disaster recovery workforce, leaving disaster-ravaged communities in the lurch, including in two states that voted for President Donald Trump, according to a new report.

The agency is on pace to axe thousands of Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery, or CORE, employees, the boots-on-the-ground personnel who stay in disaster zones for years, Notus reported Friday. FEMA is simply not renewing their contracts.


“The impact is going to be huge,” the employee told the outlet about the layoffs. “I think of things like the LA wildfires and the Kerrville floods from last year that are really still in more of an active phase of recovery. There are recovery offices and FEMA staff performing essential recovery roles across the country for disasters going back five, six, seven years.”

Even award-winning employees recommended for renewal are being let go with one employee saying the decision is coming from Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security, not because of FEMA.

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Trump voting states to lose FEMA disaster recovery workforce (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd 12 hrs ago OP
They are using monies for FEMA to go ICE............. Lovie777 11 hrs ago #1

Lovie777

(21,907 posts)
1. They are using monies for FEMA to go ICE.............
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 05:31 AM
11 hrs ago

therefore, fuck you.

Thousands will lose their jobs. AI and grok can't do a damn thing when mother earth master disasters hit and or man made disasters.

More people out of jobs.

This administration sucks.

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