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More than 180 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees sent a letter to Congress last week, arguing that the agency's direction harms their mission and could result in another
disaster on the level of Hurricane Katrina. In what appears to be a direct act of retaliation, Trump then laid off about 30 employees who had signed the letter. In a time of worsening
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Donald Trump and his MAGA regime are again stoking violence through their hostile takeover of the District of Columbia, turning our government into a weapon against the people while
using our public lands as staging grounds for the National Guard and federal law enforcement.
This is part of a power grab to wrest more control and undermine state and local authority. It endangers our freedoms and our futures, and limits our readiness to respond to a disaster
if our state National Guards are deployed for nonemergency purposes rather than to respond to floods, fires, and hurricanes. While DC, Los Angeles, and border communities are facing
this crisis now, Trump has openly threatened that other cities and states could be next.
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