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By Manuel Quiñones, Thomas Frank | 06/15/2026 06:28 AM EDT
Lawmakers will question Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Cameron Hamilton, nominee to be Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, is seen at the Capitol on June 4. Francis Chung/POLITICO
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will question a roster of President Donald Trump’s nominees this week, notably Cameron Hamilton to run the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Hamilton will testify after months of turmoil at an agency the administration once considered scrapping. Indeed, Hamilton ran FEMA for a time last year before getting fired and would be the agency’s first permanent head of Trump’s second term.
The nominee enjoys the support of Homeland Security Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who called Hamilton “a great pick” when Trump nominated him last month. “I will move his nomination quickly through our committee,” Paul wrote on the social media site X.
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Disaster Management, said in a statement about Hamilton’s nomination, “It is critically important we get to work on reform legislation that sets FEMA and our country up for success.”
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