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FEMA is calling them back. In a Friday night court filing in San Francisco, the Trump administration told a federal judge that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun offering new appointments to the disaster workers it refused to renew in January, reversing course just one month before the start of hurricane season on Florida's most exposed coastline. The reversal lands as the lawsuit, brought by the American Federation of Government Employees and a coalition of scientific groups and local governments, alleged the nonrenewals were part of a wider plan to gut FEMA's workforce by half. By late January, 159 CORE disaster workers had already been pushed out before the agency suddenly paused the cuts ahead of a major winter storm.It is the latest in a long pattern. From the National Nuclear Security Administration to the CDC, from the Department of Agriculture's bird flu response teams to the Indian Health Service, federal agencies have spent more than a year firing workers under DOGE and quietly hiring them back when the consequences hit. By March 2026, roughly 25,000 federal workers had been rehired as essential, courts had ordered reinstatements at 18 agencies, and Elon Musk himself called DOGE only "somewhat successful." Brevard County sits at ground zero for the question now hanging over Washington: with hurricane season beginning June 1, will a battered FEMA be ready? Read the full report: ... See MoreSee Less

FEMA Reverses Layoffs Before Hurricane Season Hits Florida - The Space Coast Rocket

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FEMA is rehiring disaster workers it cut in January, joining a year-long pattern of DOGE reversals across federal agencies as hurricane season nears.

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