FEMA Extends Hiring Freeze Through 2025 As Hurricane Season Looms
Source: USA Today/Reuters
Updated Aug 30, 2025, 10:19 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended a hiring freeze through at least the end of this year, according to three sources familiar with the matter, as the peak of hurricane season approaches.
The Trump administration froze hiring government-wide through October 15, with exceptions for public safety employees and a few other categories. FEMA is extending that freeze, according to the sources.
The Department of Homeland Security "is committed to ensuring FEMA delivers for the American people," a FEMA spokesperson said in a statement. The spokesperson did not respond to a question about the hiring freeze. The agency is overseen by the Department of Homeland Security.
News about the freeze trickled through the agency the same week that three dozen former and current FEMA employees signed a public letter of dissent against the agency’s leaders. The letter, sent by a mix of former political appointees and permanent staff, said the inexperience of the Trump administration’s top appointees could lead to catastrophe at the level of Hurricane Katrina.
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As if what happened in TX with the floods, was not enough to make a dent in their heartless effort to extract water from a rock to give to the wealthy.
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