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FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted from agency, sources say By Gabe Cohen, Andrew Kaczynski
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I’m not sure anything sums up the second Trump administration better than this: to the career staffers at FEMA, of all the political appointees they had to deal with, the guy who thought he’d teleported to a Waffle House stood out as the sane one

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Even so, Phillips had won over some career FEMA officials. When he arrived, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her de facto chief of staff Corey Lewandowski were taking aggressive steps to rein in FEMA, shrink the agency and bottleneck funding. FEMA officials said Phillips stood out because he was willing to resist moves that would potentially hobble the agency’s work.
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