The now-fired acting head of FEMA, Cameron Hamilton, was dismissed by DHS officials after defending the agency\u2019s Biden-era disaster responses and contradicting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s statements on possibly eliminating FEMA. Hamilton, a former Navy SEAL, was let go by Deputy DHS Secretary Troy Edgar and Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski, a day after his House testimony opposing FEMA\u2019s<\/p>\n
dissolution. David Richardson replaced him. The firing follows Trump\u2019s criticism of FEMA\u2019s response to Hurricane Helene and the dismissal of four FEMA officials for misallocating $59M to house illegal immigrants in luxury NYC hotels, as reported by Elon Musk on X. Trump plans to reform or eliminate FEMA, favoring state-led disaster responses for efficiency and cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The now-fired acting head of FEMA, Cameron Hamilton, was dismissed by DHS officials after defending the agency\u2019s Biden-era disaster responses and contradicting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s statements on possibly eliminating FEMA. Hamilton, a former Navy SEAL, was let go by Deputy DHS Secretary Troy Edgar and Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski, a day after his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}