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FEMA aims to rehire most of the disaster-response employees it fired months ago

The agency is planning to bring back most of the staffers from the Cadre of On-Call Response and Recovery who were terminated as part of Kristi Noem’s plans to cut the agency.

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FEMA aims to rehire most of the disaster-response employees it fired months agoThe agency is planning to bring back most of the staffers from the Cadre of On-Call Response and Recovery who were terminated as part of Kristi Noem’s plans to cut the agency.
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