what emergency managers are saying about Kristi Noem's departure

Once someone is gone, more knives come out than were present in the past. See this Guardian news article, US disaster response workers won’t miss the ‘singularly destructive force’ that was Kristi Noem

The quote from Craig Fugate is one that I found “sublime, “I also asked Craig Fugate, who directed FEMA between 2009 and 2017, for a response to Noem’s departure. He told me simply: “Change is good.”

Taken from Politico is this quote, “THE KRISTI NOEM EFFECT: The now-departed DHS secretary’s strict spending-approval process affected FEMA’s roughly $200,000 contract with a company that provides tornado-tracking tool data that expired last month, CNN’s Gabe Cohen scooped. That left search-and-rescue officers without a precise picture of areas hit by last week’s deadly tornadoes in the Midwest and Plains. DHS didn’t respond for comment.”

I have found that the replacement for someone who was not all that effective is not guaranteed to be much better. However, in this case her record of malfeasance would be hard to beat. I’m hoping for much, much better…hopefully confirmation will come soon. Leaderless organizations don’t do well.