The Trump administration’s top official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, David Richardson, resigned on Monday after about six months on the job.
Richardson had no emergency management experience when he took on the role. He came to FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, where he was an assistant secretary. Richardson was publicly criticized for FEMA’s handling of catastrophic 4th of July floods, which killed more than 130 people in Texas.
“I agreed to be the acting administrator through hurricane season when others wouldn’t,” Richardson said in an interview Monday.
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