The new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency warned employees Friday, “Don’t get in my way” and promised to “run right over” workers who try to interfere with him, according to a partial recording of the meeting.
David Richardson, a former Marine officer and Department of Homeland Security official, told FEMA employees that “obfuscation, delay, undermining” will not help them “because I will run right over you. I will achieve the president’s intent.”
Richardson’s statements are contained in a recording posted on journalist Marisa Kabas’ Bluesky social media account and were reported in part Friday morning by Reuters.
The recording begins with Richardson telling FEMA employees, “There’s somewhere south of 20 percent that decide they are going to get in the way of change.”
