{"id":446,"date":"2026-10-29T17:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/?p=446"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:44:53","slug":"fema-boss-fired-after-remarks-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Boss Fired After Remarks To Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\"><span class=\"\">A year after his abrupt firing,<\/span> Cameron Hamilton was surprisingly brought back to FEMA.<span class=\"\"> Here is the short version of how and why:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"1\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,0,0\"><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"1,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The Agency in Chaos:<\/b> Following Hamilton&#8217;s May 2025 exit, FEMA cycled through three temporary leaders and lost over 4,<span class=\"\">300 employees.<\/span> The administration desperately needed stability ahead of the 2026 hurricane season.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,1,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"1,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The Renomination:<\/b> In May 2026, President Trump officially nominated Hamilton to return\u2014this time as the permanent administrator.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,2,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"1,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The Pushback:<\/b> During his confirmation hearings, Democrats heavily scrutinized a memo Hamilton had previously authored suggesting cuts to disaster aid, and questioned if he would deny federal aid to &#8220;blue states.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,3,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"1,3,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The Promise &amp; Result:<\/b> Hamilton testified that he would follow the law and ensure disaster aid was distributed fairly. The Senate narrowly confirmed him by a 51-47 vote in August 2026.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after his abrupt firing, Cameron Hamilton was surprisingly brought back to FEMA. Here is the short version of how and why: The Agency in Chaos: Following Hamilton&#8217;s May&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}