Posted on 04/25/2025 7:20:55 AM PDT by ransomnote
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. agency that manages disasters plans to require nearly all employees, including full-time headquarters and regional staff, to be deployed to emergency zones, according to a draft memo to agency employees seen by Reuters.
SNIPThe administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has said it will move FEMA's disaster preparedness work to state and local governments. He has floated shuttering the agency altogether.
The notion that FEMA office staff could be called on to support disaster response is not new, but mandatory deployment minimums will likely create anxiety for them, said Michael Coen, former FEMA chief of staff under the Obama and Biden administrations.
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About 5,000, or 22%, of the staff are permanent full-time employees, according to a 2023 U.S. Government Accountability Office report. They are usually not deployed to disaster zones.
Most other staff are on-call reservists or members of the agency's Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees, who are hired for limited periods for disaster work.
Under the draft plan, full-time employees can expect to be deployed for at least 45 to 90 days a year depending on their roles, the memo says.
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What a shame. /s
I’d rather close the whole thing.
The deployment requirement will likely chase out any FEMA employees who are slightly normal, are married, have children, and understand the real world to some extent. The only employees left will be 20-something ideologues who will dedicate their lives to taking advantage of people who have been devastated by disasters.
Poor babies. Perhaps they should find other jobs, or simply suck it up like other people do.
This old web page is still up there...
Getting rid of the employees who created it is a no brainer:
FEMA will rent or lease out blocks of rooms in moderate to high end whole hotels for those people
If hotels aren't available, they will charter cruise ships and bring them into the are if possible
The agency will try to put people up in the best accommodations available, before they managerial types are bedded in the communal tents with all the regular field workers
Well, we don’t want them to have anxiety.
Finally. Get the bureaucrats off their fat useless butts and make them at least pretend to do something.
Close FEMA. States should be run by state governments which keeps politics local. Feds should only enjoin when necessary to protect the welfare of the citizenry when needed.
Sounds like a good plan...
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled US emergency agency plan requires nearly all staff to be deployed, draft memo shows, Svartalfiar wrote: but mandatory deployment minimums will likely create anxiety for them, said Michael Coen
Oh the tragedy! Maybe now these people will at least have some empathy with those whose homes are literally gone...I recall that one jerk at FEMA told staff responding to North Carolina post hurricane to skip MAGA homes. And I watched a FEMA helicopter hover over a home grown support stand (blankets, water, food etc) - the helo remained until the wash from the helo blew the contents all over the place. Yeah, tell me how concerned I am....
Well, I mean with Trump in office there will be turnover...maybe good people can get into FEMA. The ones who actually want to help.
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