Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump Plan to Halve FEMA Workforce as Unlawful
Sourced from 4 publications
- •A federal judge ruled the Trump administration's plan to cut FEMA staffing by 50% was unlawful, finding DHS provided no adequate basis for the reductions.
- •The judge said the plan appeared "pulled from thin air" and would prevent FEMA from fulfilling its legal duty to respond to disasters, according to the Washington Post.
- •President Trump has stated he would like to abolish FEMA entirely, according to Al Jazeera, placing the staffing cuts within a broader effort to reshape federal disaster management.
- •The ruling freezes the proposed workforce reduction and requires any future plan to be supported by defensible justification.
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