Acting FEMA administrator fired after contradicting Trump on abolishing agency

Acting Federal Emergency Management Administrator Cameron Hamilton has been fired, according to media reports, a time aft helium opposed abolishing the agency, which President Donald Trump has suggested.

Pressed during a May 7 House committee proceeding astir eliminating FEMA, Hamilton said helium didn't enactment it.

“I bash not judge it is successful the champion involvement of the American radical to destruct the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” Hamilton said.

Hamilton’s comments were a notable interruption from the rhetoric of Trump and different medication officials, who during his 2nd word person remained publically supportive of his messaging.

“I deliberation we’re going to urge that FEMA spell away," Trump said while touring flood harm successful North Carolina successful January, earlier continuing to Los Angeles, which was devastated by wildfires, where he said, "I accidental you don't request FEMA, you request a bully authorities government."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who oversees FEMA, reiterated Trump’s presumption successful a May 6 legislature hearing.

“He believes that FEMA and its effect successful many, galore circumstances has failed the American people, and that FEMA, arsenic it exists today, should beryllium eliminated,” Noem said

Hamilton, the FEMA administrator, noted that the agency's aboriginal isn’t up to him. He said it's a question for Trump and “this governing body” to determine “what is prudent for national concern and what is not.”

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