Trump’s Ex-FEMA Chief Doesn’t Think Agency Should Be Abolished

As President Donald Trump called to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency earlier this year, the chief he brought on to run it was pushing back.

That’s according to the official himself, FEMA’s former acting head Cameron Hamilton, who appeared on the “Disaster Tough” podcast this week in his first public interview since departing that role in May.

Hamilton said he believed the agency needed “some reform” and that he wanted to gradually “downsize” its responsibilities. Even as he prepared a memo on how to abolish the agency at the direction of his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, he said he tried ...