By Brianna Sacks, Hannah Natanson and Ruby Mellen, Wash. Post
Hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees were fired as part of a wave of terminations of federal workers over the holiday weekend and Tuesday, according to agency officials. The cuts, which come in addition to the firing of more than 200 last week, target probationary and contract employees and could affect people across the country who are struggling to rebuild and prepare for disasters.
The mass firings started over Presidents’ Day weekend, part of what federal employees in text groups and online forums called the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre,” which has created chaos across the federal government. Supervisors warned their workers to quickly pull their documents off websites and email them to personal accounts so they’d have copies, messages seen by The Washington Post show. Employees logging into internal systems could no longer see team profiles, which are usually readily accessible.
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