On Thursday night, the Department of Homeland Security’s head of human resources sent an email saying FEMA decided that the agency would halt their process of non-renewing dozens of federally funded employees ... .
In an email Thursday obtained by CNN, staff were told FEMA would stop dismissing workers whose contracts are expiring ... The decision came hours after Homeland SecuritySecretaryKristi Noem visited FEMA headquarters for a storm briefing.
"FEMA lost more than 3,700 employees — or about 14 percent of the agency — between January and November last year, according to newly released federal workforce data." ... FEMA said in a statement that ...
“If FEMA says, ‘Keep off the roads if you see ice,’ it would be easy for the public to meme it,” a source with knowledge of the guidance told CNN... A statement to CNN Friday, attributable to a FEMA spokesperson, said.
FEMA said in the email obtained by CNN that it would “cease offboarding” for disaster workers whose employment contracts are set to expire in the coming days ... “DHS, FEMA, CISA, USCG, ...
In an email Thursday afternoon, obtained by CNN, staff were told that FEMA would “cease offboarding” disaster workers whose employment contracts are expiring in the days ahead — a practice that had been ongoing since the start of January.
SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson has asked PresidentDonald Trump for a major disaster declaration along with $21.3 million in individual assistance for people whose homes were damaged in December’s catastrophic flooding ... .
The state will make a separate, likely larger request by Feb. 18 for aid to cover costs of repairing storm-damaged highways, levees and other infrastructure ... .