Ranking Member Thompson Statement on Trump and Elon Mass Firing Personnel at FEMA
(WASHINGTON) – Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on President Trump mass firing hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel:
“While parts of the South suffered devastating flooding and lives lost this weekend, Donald Trump and Elon Musk were busy mass firing the people who help build back communities after disasters. A downright reckless and mindless act that will jeopardize the ability of FEMA to respond in the future. With extreme weather events and climate-driven disasters becoming more frequent and destructive, FEMA was actually short staffed before Elon and his minions went to FEMA headquarters and now the agency will be further hampered. DHS cites ‘egregious waste and incompetence’ as the reason for the firings, but I’m sure we’ll never see any real evidence of such. We all know it’s a boldfaced lie.”
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