Cameron Hamilton\u2019s ouster wasn\u2019t just a personnel change; it was a warning shot.<\/p>\n
A former Navy SEAL who had already considered resigning, he chose instead to defend a federal lifeline he believed Americans still needed.<\/p>\n
One day after publicly rejecting the idea of eliminating FEMA, he was dismissed by top Homeland Security officials and a senior Trump adviser.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the administration seized on a scandal over FEMA-funded luxury hotels for migrants,<\/p>\n
vowing clawbacks and mass firings, while using that outrage to justify a radical overhaul\u2014or outright abolition\u2014of the agency.<\/p>\n
Trump promised faster, cheaper, state-run disaster responses, blaming FEMA\u2019s failures on the<\/p>\n
Biden era and hinting that Washington would \u201ctake over\u201d recovery in places like hurricane-ravaged North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Between Hamilton\u2019s defiance and Trump\u2019s determination, the country is now caught between two starkly different visions of who shows up when everything is already gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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