Senate Funds Border Guards to Starve Federal Workers #
Abby McIlraith stood in her office at the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week and waited for an email that felt like a pardon. According to The Guardian, McIlraith and thirteen of her colleagues were finally reinstated after spending eight months on administrative leave for the crime of signing a letter criticizing the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency. Their return is a grim irony. As they pick up their stained ID lanyards, the very agency they serve is physically…