"FEMA did not respond to WIRED's request for comment. "It is not surprising that some of the same bureaucrats who presided over decades of inefficiency are now objecting to reform," the agency told the Guardian, which reported on the retaliation against the employees who signed the letter. "Change is always hard. It is especially for those invested in the status quo, who have forgotten that their duty is to the American people not entrenched bureaucracy.""
""Stating that @fema is operating more efficiently, and cutting red tape is either: uninformed about managing disasters; misled by public officials; or lying to the American the public [sic] to prop up talking points," he wrote. "President Trump and the American people deserve better than this...FEMA is saving money which is good due to the astronomical U.S. Debt from Congress. Despite this, FEMA staff are responding to entirely new forms of bureaucracy now that is lengthening wait times for claim recipients, and delaying the deployment of time sensitive resources.""
A group of FEMA employees who signed a letter criticizing agency operations faced potential retaliation and expressed fear of being identified. The agency defended reforms as necessary to cut inefficiency and described resistance from those invested in the status quo. Similar actions occurred at the EPA in July when about 140 employees who signed a comparable public letter were suspended. A FEMA signer warned that tactics used by DHS in April, including polygraphs to find leakers, could be used to unmask anonymous signers. Former acting administrator Cameron Hamilton publicly criticized FEMA’s bureaucracy and longer claim wait times.
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