FEMA staff celebrate Noem ouster over micromanagement and budget delays
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Current and former FEMA staff celebrate Kristi Noem's firing as DHS secretary, arguing her micromanagement and drive to shrink FEMA degraded disaster response and delayed billions in reimbursements, with the agency's backlog hitting about $17 billion; Trump names Markwayne Mullin as her successor, though officials worry it may not fully restore FEMA's effectiveness.
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