Trump administration replaces FEMA acting administrator with retired Marine

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s medication changed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting head tasked with catastrophe response.

Homeland Security fired Cameron Hamilton Thursday aft helium contradicted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s proposition to destruct FEMA.

“I bash not judge it is successful the champion interests of the American people,” Hamilton said Wednesday earlier the House Appropriations subcommittee.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt didn’t property the connection arsenic the crushed for the firing.

“We privation to marque definite that radical successful each presumption are advancing the administration’s goals,” Leavitt said during a quality conference.

Gov. Ron DeSantis welcomed the thought aft Trump suggested that catastrophe effect should not beryllium near to the national authorities but to the states.

Homeland Security replaced Hamilton with David Richardson, a retired Marine Corps serviceman with a ngo to instrumentality a cost-sharing with states model.

“Obfuscation. Delay. Undermining. If you’re 1 of those 20% of the radical and you deliberation those tactics and techniques are going to assistance you, they volition not due to the fact that I volition tally close implicit you. I volition execute the president’s intent,” Richardson allegedly told the FEMA unit Friday.

The enactment alteration comes weeks distant from the Atlantic hurricane season, which starts June 1 with a forecast for much than mean enactment until Nov. 30.

Richardson, who served successful Afghanistan, Iraq, and Africa, was the DHS adjunct caput for countering weapons of wide destruction.

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