On Jan. 20 Sen. Andy Kim demanded that proposed staff cuts for the Federal Emergency Management Agency be stopped because he and a group of Democratic senators said they “would risk the agency’s ability to fulfill its mandated duties supporting communities and protecting people’s lives and livelihoods.”

Kim, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee that includes oversight on FEMA, and the others said in a letter to Department of…