Now the only running Richardson is doing is running for the exit, after just six months. The Washington Post reported:

David Richardson on Monday resigned as acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to people familiar with the situation, ending a brief tenure leading an agency the administration had publicly expressed a desire to dismantle. … In recent months, current agency employees said Richardson spent limited time in daily operations meetings and shrank away from his role.

....Highlighting additional red tape and bureaucracy imposed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, NOTUS published a brutal report along these lines in September, noting, “The Trump administration has the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a doom loop, according to current and former employees frustrated with its direction.”

All of this, of course, comes months after Trump said he saw FEMA as an unnecessary department that should be “TERMINATED.” Around the same time, Noem, whose department oversees the emergency response agency, added, “We’re going to eliminate FEMA.”

The White House has since hedged on the agency’s demise — but all things considered, it’s hardly unreasonable to wonder whether the agency can survive Trump’s second term. Watch this space.