President Donald Trump has nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a year after he was fired as the agency’s acting administrator. Hamilton previously served in that role from January to May of last year, before being removed shortly after he testified to Congress that FEMA should not be dismantled—something that Trump and then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem had proposed. “As the senior advisor to the President on disasters and emergency management, and to the Secretary of Homeland Security, I do not believe it is in the best interest of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” Hamilton said during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on May 7, 2025.…