LoginFired FEMA chief recounts ‘hostile relationship’ with Trump officials
"I wanted to choke some people," Cameron Hamilton said in a podcast interview last week.
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Shrinking post-Katrina levees need $1B in upgrades
Twenty years out from the New Orleans disaster, the city's levee and flood wall system must be raised or the region could become ineligible for federal flood insurance.
Trump's former FEMA chief opens up — and says administration is 'delaying' aid
Months after his firing, Cameron Hamilton contradicted the administration's claims of efficiency and suggested officials could be "lying" to the American people.
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Democrats sue Trump over canceled disaster grant program
State prosecutors want to restore $4.5 billion in canceled funding and to declare that FEMA's acting administrator is serving "unlawfully."
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‘No alternative funding sources’: Trump’s stifling of disaster aid leaves cities adrift
The president canceled $4.5 billion in FEMA grants that helped communities prepare for rising disaster damage.
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FEMA cleared of punishing pro-Trump hurricane victims
A recent investigation found "no evidence" that the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Joe Biden deliberately avoided helping homes in Florida that backed Donald Trump.
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Noem offers buyouts to DHS workers
The Homeland Security secretary outlined "workforce transition programs" in an email Monday evening.
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Trump’s acting FEMA leader undercuts president’s claims about disaster money
A document filed in court by the acting FEMA administrator, Cameron Hamilton, undercuts the administration’s misinformation campaign on disaster aid.
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