Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has fired two dozen employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency amid the Trump administration's crackdown on the disaster response agency.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday evening that Noem had terminated 24 FEMA workers, including top officials, for having "brazenly neglected basic security protocols."

“FEMA’s career IT leadership failed on every level. Their incompetence put the American people at risk,” Noem said in a statement .

“When DHS stepped in to fix the problem, entrenched bureaucrats worked to prevent us from solving the problem and downplayed just how bad this breach was," Noem said. "These deep-state individuals were more interested in covering up their failures than in protecting the Homeland and A

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