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Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Might Leave You Stranded After a Disaster
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At least 100 tornadoes, baseball-size hail and pummeling rainstorms hit 11 states over the weekend .
CNN Weather reports that 28 people in three states have died as a result.
The White House has been slashing public-sector jobs so thoroughly that even the nation’s preeminent climate and disaster experts haven’t been spared.
16 of FEMA ’s senior executives left the agency this week .
David Richardson is now stacking his executive team with DHS staffers who come from other departments.
The long-term effects of this senseless sabotage will mean that as climate change ramps up the rate and severity of extreme disasters, we will be less able to prepare for them.
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