I have a good friend who is a long time female employee. What Noem is Donny to the agency is insane. She’s incompetent and cares nothing for the mission. People are being told to do as little as possible and the director basically has no authority. Anyone who speaks up has been immediately fired and walked out. They are doing regular lie detector tests of employees to try to discourage whistleblowers. The American people deserve so much better than this.
40 years ago fema was a little known agency that toiled in relative obscurity to help people at the worst times of their lives. I don’t know how it became such a scapegoat but it’s coming at the worst time—when climate change is making climate disasters more and more common. We need more and better resources at FEma, not knee capping the agency. Sadly many of the dedicated servants have already left and many more are on a path to leave in the next several months.

I’d say the same thing about FDA and NIH. It’s appalling what they are doing to destroy our country.

FEMA leader is a no-show after deadly Texas flooding
David Richardson hasn't made public appearances, statements or social media postings since last week's flood. Former FEMA officials say that's concerning.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/fema-leader-texas-flooding-00445902
As the Federal Emergency Management Agency responds to the deadly flooding in Texas, one key resource is missing: the FEMA leader.
David Richardson, the agency’s acting administrator, has not been to the site of one of the nation’s deadliest floods in the U.S. in the past 25 years, upending a long practice of FEMA leaders making themselves visible after major disasters.

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Anonymous wrote:ICE Barbie is not good at her job.

On Fox this morning, she blasted CNN but didn't deny the story. I mean, the fact is FEMA was not activated until Monday. she can try to blame underlings, but the paper trail likely doesn't support it.

This $100k rule is absolutely true and it has paralyzed FEMA. They have contracts for critical service ending and cannot get them renewed because ICE Barbie hasn’t bothered to open her email to click approve.

She's too busy cosplaying various Barbies. But seriously. How is a department secretary supposed to have time to do work at that level for just ONE of her agencies? It's ridiculous.

From what I understand, this $100k rule applies DHS-wide. It's nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ICE Barbie is not good at her job.

On Fox this morning, she blasted CNN but didn't deny the story. I mean, the fact is FEMA was not activated until Monday. she can try to blame underlings, but the paper trail likely doesn't support it.

This $100k rule is absolutely true and it has paralyzed FEMA. They have contracts for critical service ending and cannot get them renewed because ICE Barbie hasn’t bothered to open her email to click approve.

She's too busy cosplaying various Barbies. But seriously. How is a department secretary supposed to have time to do work at that level for just ONE of her agencies? It's ridiculous.

*170 are still missing.

Anonymous wrote:As the Washington Post reported,

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

So what is a thinly stretched government, asked to do too much with too little, going to do? It’s going to make more mistakes than it would if it had adequate resources. Mistakes will always happen, of course, and it may be impossible to prove that any given mistake was the result of reduced spending and staffing. But there will be more and bigger mistakes than would have happened if anti-government ideology hadn’t taken its toll.

This has increased inefficiency. What a clown show, and people are dying because of it. Terrible.

I just heard on the radio that since she spring, not one single post disaster mitigation support request from the states has been approved by FEMA. That didn’t even happen in Trumps first term, when those requests would get quick turnaround. Noem is a disaster and needs to be fired, and Trump himself needs to be held accountable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ICE Barbie is not good at her job.

On Fox this morning, she blasted CNN but didn't deny the story. I mean, the fact is FEMA was not activated until Monday. she can try to blame underlings, but the paper trail likely doesn't support it.

This $100k rule is absolutely true and it has paralyzed FEMA. They have contracts for critical service ending and cannot get them renewed because ICE Barbie hasn’t bothered to open her email to click approve.

They should try sending the emails to her married lover, Corey Lewandoski, who has regular access to her both during and after work hours. Maybe he can get her to open them up

House and Senate Republicans are, as of this morning, STILL pushing for a nearly 30% cut to NOAA and other agencies and programs that protect human life (like the FEMA flood mapping and mitigation programs, CDC, EPA and others, justifying it through lies and nonsense just so that their billionaire mega donors can get massive tax cuts that they don’t need.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ICE Barbie is not good at her job.

On Fox this morning, she blasted CNN but didn't deny the story. I mean, the fact is FEMA was not activated until Monday. she can try to blame underlings, but the paper trail likely doesn't support it.

This $100k rule is absolutely true and it has paralyzed FEMA. They have contracts for critical service ending and cannot get them renewed because ICE Barbie hasn’t bothered to open her email to click approve.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ICE Barbie is not good at her job.

On Fox this morning, she blasted CNN but didn't deny the story. I mean, the fact is FEMA was not activated until Monday. she can try to blame underlings, but the paper trail likely doesn't support it.

She's responsible for deaths and her response is to shoot the messenger.

I am awed by the shamelessness of these people.

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Anonymous wrote:As the Washington Post reported,

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

So what is a thinly stretched government, asked to do too much with too little, going to do? It’s going to make more mistakes than it would if it had adequate resources. Mistakes will always happen, of course, and it may be impossible to prove that any given mistake was the result of reduced spending and staffing. But there will be more and bigger mistakes than would have happened if anti-government ideology hadn’t taken its toll.

So they are re-hiring people after passing a bill that cut those funds in favor of tax cuts for billionaires. Where is the money to pay these rehired civil servants coming from? Or are they just going to push the debt that much more?

The latter

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Noem has managed to piss through most of her budget already and we’re barely even into Hurricane season. Trump admin is wasteful, irresponsible spending on steroids.

Well she spent an ungodly amount on public relations and advertising the greatness of Trump.

Anonymous wrote:ICE Barbie is not good at her job.

On Fox this morning, she blasted CNN but didn't deny the story. I mean, the fact is FEMA was not activated until Monday. she can try to blame underlings, but the paper trail likely doesn't support it.

Anonymous wrote:As the Washington Post reported,

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

So what is a thinly stretched government, asked to do too much with too little, going to do? It’s going to make more mistakes than it would if it had adequate resources. Mistakes will always happen, of course, and it may be impossible to prove that any given mistake was the result of reduced spending and staffing. But there will be more and bigger mistakes than would have happened if anti-government ideology hadn’t taken its toll.

So they are re-hiring people after passing a bill that cut those funds in favor of tax cuts for billionaires. Where is the money to pay these rehired civil servants coming from? Or are they just going to push the debt that much more?