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Our entire federal government will have to be rebuilt after Trump administration is gone?!!
The Trump administration is abruptly cutting dozens of disaster response and recovery staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week, according to internal emails obtained by CNN and sources familiar with the plan.
On New Year’s Eve, some employees received emails saying their positions “would not be renewed” and “therefore, your services will no longer be needed” after their contracts expire in the first days of January.
The cuts target FEMA’s Cadre of On-Call Response and Recovery (CORE) teams, which form the backbone of the agency’s operations during and after a disaster, and could be just the beginning of a larger effort by Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security to shrink FEMA.
After CNN’s story was published Friday, a DHS spokesperson described the non-renewals as “a routine staff adjustment of 50 staff out of 8,000.”
However, multiple sources told CNN the department has recently discussed deeper cuts to CORE, and several officials said the department’s actions here — to oust all workers whose contracts expire in a specific timeframe — is not routine.
According to two sources with knowledge of the terminations, which suddenly ousted roughly 50 CORE staff, the decision came from FEMA’s new acting chief Karen Evans — who was elevated to the role by DHS leadership after the embattled previous agency head resigned.
The notices stunned employees, who learned they would be let go within days. “Beyond cruel to be treated in such a way,” one of the workers said.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/politics/dhs-cutting-fema-disaster-response-staff
The Trump administration is abruptly cutting dozens of disaster response and recovery staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week, according to internal emails obtained by CNN and sources familiar with the plan.
On New Year’s Eve, some employees received emails saying their positions “would not be renewed” and “therefore, your services will no longer be needed” after their contracts expire in the first days of January.
The cuts target FEMA’s Cadre of On-Call Response and Recovery (CORE) teams, which form the backbone of the agency’s operations during and after a disaster, and could be just the beginning of a larger effort by Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security to shrink FEMA.
After CNN’s story was published Friday, a DHS spokesperson described the non-renewals as “a routine staff adjustment of 50 staff out of 8,000.”
However, multiple sources told CNN the department has recently discussed deeper cuts to CORE, and several officials said the department’s actions here — to oust all workers whose contracts expire in a specific timeframe — is not routine.
According to two sources with knowledge of the terminations, which suddenly ousted roughly 50 CORE staff, the decision came from FEMA’s new acting chief Karen Evans — who was elevated to the role by DHS leadership after the embattled previous agency head resigned.
The notices stunned employees, who learned they would be let go within days. “Beyond cruel to be treated in such a way,” one of the workers said.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/politics/dhs-cutting-fema-disaster-response-staff
