Trump Gives FEMA Agents the Worst Reassignment of Their Life

Photo: New Orleans, La., August 30, 2005 — Aerial photograph of Hurricane Katrina aftermath in New Orleans. Photo credit: Jocelyn Augustino / FEMA via Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by Rachel Kahn. The New Republic – August 6, 2025.

A number of FEMA employees were told via email Tuesday night that they would be reassigned to ICE. Sources familiar with the matter say that those who received the email were probationary employees who had been on administrative leave for months after the Trump administration attempted to fire them, according to The American Prospect. […]

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