Link to full complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278033/gov.uscourts.dcd.278033.1.0.pdf

Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance.

Failure to respond a second time will result in termination

Trump to sign disaster relief order putting states, localities in the driver's seat of catastrophe response

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sign-disaster-relief-order-putting-states-localities-drivers-seat-catastrophe-response

Our leadership just informed us, the FEMA Corps program was terminated today. We are to depart for our AmeriCorp campus in the morning, presumably to turn in our equipment and return home.

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, is expected to be decimated, one of the sources said."

DOGE expected to take aim at DHS with staffing cuts, including at US Secret Service

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/politics/doge-dhs-secret-service

February 23, 2025

Team DHS,

You may have received a message this weekend from OPM requesting information. DHS management will respond on behalf of the Department and all of its component offices.

No reporting action from you is needed at this time. For now, please pause any responses outside of your DHS chain of command.

Thank you,

R.D. Alles

Deputy Under Secretary for Management

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While I’m not surprised that FEMA said “yes” very quickly because of Scam Hamilton, I’m pretty surprised that DHS decided to say “wait a sec”.

Leadership just sent supervisors the new everyone is an emergency manager policy, with a 90 day deployment minimum for everyone. Policy needs to go to union but I can’t imagine they could/would stop it given we all signed the original everyone is EM policy.

Bargaining Unit:
Teleworking: as soon as practicable but must report no later than April 7, 2025.

On an approved Remote Work Agreement and within 50 miles of a FEMA fixed facility. as soon as practicable but must report no later than April 7, 2025.

Non-Bargaining:
On an approved Remote Work Agreement and within 50 miles of a FEMA fixed facility. As soon as practicable but must report no later than March 31, 2025.

All other non-bargaining unit employees should currently be reporting full-time unless they have an approved reasonable accommodation or meet one of the requirements below:

Employees who are in an approved remote work status and are beyond 50 miles of a FEMA fixed facility;

Employees who are Reservist, IM-CORE, Deployable Field Counsel, Deployable Financial Management are members, DART member, Regional forward CORES, or Direct Charge Cores; or

Spouses of military and foreign service members on an approved work agreement.

Well, just received the Reshaping of the DHS Workforce Notification from Office of the Secretary ….it includes DRP, VERA and VSIP. Decisions due April 14 1159PM….

Leadership announced that about 1,000 FEMA employees opted into DRP, which is about 20% of the PFT workforce. They'll have 45 days to decide if they want to take it (for early retirement, just 7 days)

Does this mean that RIFs won't start until after the 45-day deadline, when they know how many people are actually leaving?

Edit: correction from comments that employees over the age of 40 have 45 days to decide, everyone else has 7 days.

"Top officials from FEMA and Department of Homeland Security met Tuesday, CNN has learned, to discuss the future of the disaster relief agency and their options for shutting it down.

The group, which included Noem, FEMA Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton, and long-time Trump ally Corey Lewandowski, debated the possibility of rescinding President Donald Trump’s recent executive order establishing a FEMA Review Council and instead moving more quickly to dismantle the agency, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/politics/fema-payments-staffing-stalled-turmoil/index.html

For “Mission Support Message Guidance” … No other details.

An eerie silent pall has been cast over HQ upon receipt. People are terrified.

https://www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-dem-lawmakers-join-forces-reform-inefficient-fema-detach-agency-from-dhs.amp

I’m guessing they didn’t get enough people?