Cameron Hamilton is at the helm during a tumultuous time for FEMA, which has struggled to deal with soaring numbers of major disasters and their growing cost as climate change intensifies flooding, storms and wildfires. | Getty Images, @FEMA_Cam/X

By Thomas Frank

02/06/2025 10:00 AM EST

The person President Donald Trump picked to run federal disaster operations has spread misinformation about the agency he now leads.

Cameron Hamilton, who took over Jan. 22 as acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has embraced false Republican narratives that FEMA “depleted” its disaster aid by helping migrants and blocked supplies to North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, according to a review by POLITICO’s E&E News of his past comments.

E&E News examined more than 1,000 posts by Hamilton on X and reviewed hours of his interviews with conservative news outlets. They reveal that Trump, who has threatened to disband FEMA, has placed the crucial agency in the hands of someone who echoes the president’s own often-misleading attacks.

Besides promoting inaccurate criticisms of the agency he’s now in charge of, Hamilton’s many posts about politics, international affairs and national security included slams on diversity, equity and inclusion; his dismissal of Trump’s hush-money conviction as a “sham”; and an unflattering photograph of former U.S. health official Rachel Levine, who is transgender.

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