Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“A number of employees with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were informed via email late on Tuesday that they have been reassigned, effective immediately, to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The workers had seven days to accept the reassignment, under threat of being removed from the civil service. … Like at many federal agencies, these employees had been on paid administrative leave for months …. now, these probationary FEMA employees on leave are apparently being shifted as a stopgap maneuver to bolster the ranks of ICE, which received tens of billions of dollars in the GOP mega-bill but faces the daunting task of hiring thousands of new agents to an unpopular agency with plummeting morale.” (08/06/25)
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-08-06-fema-employees-reassigned-to-ice/