FEMA Head Axed.....here comes hurricane season.
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton was fired Thursday. The nation’s disaster agency, which Trump has suggested abolishing, is now without a top official three weeks before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season and as Congress scrutinizes FEMA’s proposed budget. Hamilton was informed of his termination by Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Troy Edgar and Corey Lewandowski, a longtime Trump adviser and informal chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Politico’s E&E News reported.
Hamilton was fired a day after he told a House Appropriations subcommittee, “I do not believe it is in the best interests of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”
Reacting to the firing, Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.), the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement that Hamilton bucked his bosses to advocate for the agency. “Clearly this brainless idea — that Trump and Kristi Noem keep touting — is not faring well even in MAGA world,” Thompson said.
Source: The Hill
Hamilton was fired a day after he told a House Appropriations subcommittee, “I do not believe it is in the best interests of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”
Reacting to the firing, Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.), the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement that Hamilton bucked his bosses to advocate for the agency. “Clearly this brainless idea — that Trump and Kristi Noem keep touting — is not faring well even in MAGA world,” Thompson said.
Source: The Hill
