The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, confirmed Thursday that Phillips is leaving the agency, saying he is taking leave for personal reasons. But sources tell CNN the departure was not voluntary: New DHS leadership had grown weary of the embarrassment surrounding Phillips’ public image and of his periodic clashes with the department’s other leaders.
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.
It must be late cuz I can’t put together what this means. He was fired because he didnt hobble the agencys work? Or did hobble the agency?
No, you just can’t absorb what’s happening because it’s so fucked. He was fired because he didn’t destroy the agency. Trump and co want to destroy it.
That sadly makes sense. Thank you.
I think what they’re saying is that Noem was all in for destroying FEMA and this guy resisted that. He might have been too drunk to care, hard to say.
No you’re right, it’s very vague but i think that last paragraph is why they hired him in the first place. The reason he was fired is: “his periodic clashes with the department’s other leaders.”