Across the country, hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency responders have been grounded — unable to work on ongoing recoveries, move to and from disaster sites or fly home for personal emergencies — amid the Department of Homeland Security’s partial shutdown. The restrictions have already stymied relief efforts in remote villages in Alaska and rural Tennessee, even as DHS has allowed some FEMA staffers to deploy for immigration-related work, according to four agency officials and documents seen by The Washington Post.
