{"id":2640,"date":"2026-10-03T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:41:49","slug":"fema-boss-fired-after-remarks-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=2640","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Boss Fired After Remarks To Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton\u2019s career ended in a closed-door meeting.<br \/>\nMinutes later, the knives came out.<br \/>\nThe fired acting FEMA chief blasted Trump\u2019s inner circle, defended Biden-era disaster failures, and warned that killing FEMA could leave Americans alone in the next hurricane, flood or fire. But Trump\u2019s allies say the agency secretly funneled millions to luxury hotels for ille\u2026 <strong>Continues\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Hamilton\u2019s ouster was as political as it was personal. After publicly rejecting President Trump\u2019s floated plan to eliminate FEMA and shift disaster response to the states, the former Navy SEAL was summoned to DHS headquarters and quietly dismissed. His replacement was named within hours, signaling that the White House wanted not just new leadership, but unquestioning alignment on an agency Trump has branded \u201cnot good\u201d and \u201cnot on the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>The backdrop is explosive: four FEMA officials were already fired for authorizing tens of millions in hotel payments for illegal immigrants in New York City, money critics say was stolen from American disaster victims. Trump now vows to claw back those funds, overhaul or even scrap FEMA, and force states to shoulder more responsibility. Supporters call it overdue accountability; opponents warn it\u2019s a dangerous gamble with lives, as storms like Hurricane Helene keep testing a fractured system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton\u2019s career ended in a closed-door meeting. Minutes later, the knives came out. The fired acting FEMA chief blasted Trump\u2019s inner circle, defended Biden-era disaster failures,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}