{"id":59658,"date":"2025-05-19T01:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59658"},"modified":"2025-05-19T01:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:57:44","slug":"fema-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59658","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Boss."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-329-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-329-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-329-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-329.png 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameron Hamilton, acting head of FEMA, was dismissed after testifying before Congress against the elimination of FEMA, which contradicted President Trump\u2019s push to reduce the agency\u2019s role and shift disaster relief to states. Hamilton\u2019s removal was confirmed, with David Richardson appointed as interim head. This follows previous firings within FEMA over a \\$59 million payment for housing undocumented immigrants in luxury hotels. Trump has criticized FEMA\u2019s effectiveness, advocating for states to handle disaster responses, arguing it would be more efficient and cost-effective. Critics worry decentralizing could leave states ill-prepared for large-scale emergencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Hamilton, acting head of FEMA, was dismissed after testifying before Congress against the elimination of FEMA, which contradicted President Trump\u2019s push to reduce the agency\u2019s role&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59660,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59658\/revisions\/59660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}