Last time Trump was in power he would use USCIS staff to get sent to disaster areas within the U.S. to help with rebuilding which resulted in slow case processing for some field offices. The USCIS officer who had my Greencard application at the San Diego field office was sent to Texas to help with the rebuild after hurricane Harvey. My application was essentially locked in his desk and wasn’t processed. I scheduled an appointment at my field office to check in why my case was taking so long and another officer told me my case was with his co-worker who belonged to the staff that was sent to Texas. He ended up breaking into the desk to get my application (and apparently a couple others) out so someone else could take care of it. My case had been locked in there for a while. The person who originally had my case apparently was for 60+ days in Texas to help out there.
Now that I am reading here that USCIS is fee based though, I wonder how the Trump administration could just decide to take USCIS resources away and decide that the staff needs to help with disaster areas. I swear I’m not making this up though. When I was talking to the USCIS officer that told me all of this, I was speechless and mad (that immigration is the first thing they will take staff from… something that affects people’s life tremendously).