Fired DHS head Kristi Noem pushed to cut FEMA staff by 50%, give states bigger disaster role: docs

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WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s team wanted to radically transform the Federal Emergency Management Agency by cutting its workforce in half and relocating personnel across the country, according to a draft report seen by The Post. The FEMA Review Council , a panel on which Noem served as co-chair, called for shifting the organization of emergency response to the states while having the feds take on a secondary role. “FEMA needs to be fundamentally transformed

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