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First on Fox: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem Blasting a group of former and current FEMA employees who wrote a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s handling of the agency outlining her vision for FEMA’s role in the United States

More than 190 former and current FEMA employees An open letter was added on Monday “In response to the Trump administration’s cuts and devastating attacks on FEMA programs and missions.” On Wednesday morning, the current employee who signed the letter was placed on leave.

“I’m not surprised that some of the bureaucrats who have presided over decades of inefficiency now oppose reforms; including many who work under the Biden administration FEMA enters bureaucratic nightmare Today is today, DHS secretary told Fox News on Thursday. “I refuse to accept that FEMA’s traditional tape should stand between the pain and urgently needed assistance of American citizens.”

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“That’s why I’ve worked so hard to eliminate FEMA and simplified this bloated tissue into a tool that actually puts Americans in crisis,” Neum added.

President Donald TrumpThe FEMA, who has been criticizing the disaster agency since his presidential campaign, told reporters in June that the FEMA “does not work well.”

“It’s very expensive, and likewise, when you have a tornado or hurricane, or to some extent having any kind of problem, that’s what you’re going to have the governor,” Trump added. “They should fix these issues, it’s more local, and they’re going to develop a system, which is going to be a great system.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem snapped up from critics of the Trump administration’s handling of FEMA. (Luke Johnson/Los Angeles Times (Getty Images)

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this The foundation of letterPublished by the nonprofit, Science (Science), focuses on Hurricane Katrina and raises concerns that unprepared plays a major role in the consequences of shocking the Bay and destroying New Orleans, Louisiana.

Signatures believe Neum and the agency’s leaders “hindered the rapid execution [FEMA’s] Tasks and fired experienced staff whose institutional knowledge and relationships are critical to ensuring effective emergency management. ”

Secretary Norm told Fox News that these criticisms are remnants Biden administration Wasteful spending, the agency “has a history of Americans failing in real emergency situations for decades.”

Destruction of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana. (Mark Wilson/Getty Image)

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“The Biden administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a dime from American taxpayers to place illegal foreigners in our country, and FEMA hasn’t even completed payments from Hurricane Katrina,” Norm explained to Fox. “We don’t want to fix just broken systems, we want to build something better.”

“As our success in Texas demonstrates, the Trump administration has created a deployable disaster force, cut bureaucratic noise and brought real results in record time,” Nome added.

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Despite being partisan, some Democrats have realized the positive direction of the disaster agency under Neum and Trump.

Democrats Andy Beshear of Kent Carkey Earlier this month, podcast host Jaime Harrison told “on our desk” that “Trump’s FEMA is doing a great job in Kentucky” and that the federal government’s handling of the agency was actually “actually right” [Trump’s] administrative. ”

Gov. Andy Beshear praised FEMA under President Trump. (Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Photos of Win McNamee/Getty Images)

While the near future of FEMA and how Congress can fund the agency is unclear, Noem is optimistic that wasteful spending from previous leadership will be rested.

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“These [FEMA] From finance to management to staffing comments, professional bureaucrats are supported by support service contracts. Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Tell Fox News numbers. “They do hardly anything.”

“Instead, they hide a serious abuse of taxpayer funds under the veneer of ‘emergency managers’.

Preston Mizell is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to preston.mizell@fox.com and x @mizellpreston