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Performing FEMA chief fired in the future after congressional testimony
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Performing FEMA chief fired in the future after congressional testimony

Last updated: May 9, 2025 12:29 am
Editorial Board Published May 9, 2025
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The performing director of the Federal Emergency Administration Company was ousted on Thursday, barely 24 hours after testifying to a congressional committee that dismantling the company was not within the public’s finest curiosity.

FEMA performing chief Cameron Hamilton, a Trump appointee, was fired mere weeks forward of hurricane season after his look earlier than a Home Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday.

Deputy Homeland Safety Secretary Troy Edgar and Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski axed Hamilton after summoning him to the headquarters of the Division of Homeland Safety, which oversees FEMA, Politico reported.

Whereas Hamilton testified that FEMA had change into an “overextended federal bureaucracy” that micromanaged even the smallest emergency, he asserted it ought to nonetheless exist.

“As the senior advisor to the president on disasters and emergency management, and to the secretary of homeland security, I do not believe it is in the best interest of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” Hamilton informed the committee in reply to a query posed by Connecticut Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro, in response to CNN.

FEMA has been in Trump’s crosshairs since earlier than he took workplace in January, saying that particular person states, not the federal authorities, ought to mitigate their very own disasters. He has shrunk the cash put towards catastrophe preparedness and will increase the brink for states to qualify for catastrophe help.

Homeland Safety Safety Kristi Noem has, too, asserted that FEMA is a failed company and ought to be eradicated.

Hamilton didn’t disagree with revamping FEMA, however known as for a “phased approach” that entails serving to states and native governments construct “capacity and capability” fairly than making a “radical transition in an instant,” reported CNN.

Hurricane season formally begins on June 1, and FEMA is within the means of serving to states and native communities put together. Hamilton’s alternative, David Richardson, is Homeland Safety’s assistant secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Workplace and reportedly has no catastrophe response expertise. His wheelhouse is coordinating domestically and internationally “to safeguard the United States against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats,” in response to his DHS bio.

In the meantime, Hamilton is a former Navy SEAL with a background as an emergency administration specialist on the State Division throughout Trump’s first time period, in response to MSNBC. At Homeland Safety, he beforehand served because the director of the Emergency Medical Companies Division.

Hamilton has been on the verge of quitting his FEMA publish about two months in the past, Politico reported, however company employees satisfied him to remain.

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