Overview
- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 8–4 to send Cameron Hamilton’s nomination for FEMA administrator to the full Senate.
- Hamilton was removed as acting FEMA chief in May 2025 after telling Congress he opposed eliminating the agency, and he has since returned to senior roles inside and outside government.
- Ethics filings show Hamilton worked at the Department of Education, then as senior vice president at LTS, Inc., where he reported a $247,916 salary and a $350,000 bonus and expects an additional bonus valued between $250,001 and $500,000.
- He disclosed transferring two personal businesses to his spouse and pledged in his June hearing to make FEMA more objective and to simplify and speed the disaster-declaration process for states.
- The nomination faces a timing hurdle because it is unclear whether the full Senate will hold a floor vote before its August recess, and the outcome could affect whether the administration pursues Review Council recommendations to shift more disaster responsibility to state and local governments.