The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s top lawyer announced his resignation, the latest senior leader to depart the beleaguered agency as President Donald Trump works to downsize it.
Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier announced his departure to colleagues Monday, praising them as public servants “helping our communities and neighbors in their times of need,” according to a previously unreported email seen by Bloomberg Government.
“Your work is never easy, rarely appreciated, and often misunderstood or mischaracterized, but it is essential,” he wrote.
Hagmaier, a career government employee who took on the top legal job at FEMA earlier this year, is the ...