“You’ve seen 20 years of progress taken away in six months,” Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator under former President Joe Biden, told CNN. “It’s like we’ve forgotten everything that we learned from Katrina, and we’re trying to go back to the way it was beforehand.”

After Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed a law to strengthen the nation’s disaster response. FEMA employees say the Trump administration has reversed that progress.