# Cameron Hamilton **Cameron Hamilton** is the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, confirmed by the Senate on **August 7, 2026** and sworn in on **August 10, 2026** — the first Senate-confirmed FEMA Administrator of the second Trump administration. A former Navy SEAL and State Department emergency-medicine official, Hamilton served as acting FEMA Administrator from January 2025 and was **removed in May 2025, one day after testifying to a House appropriations subcommittee that FEMA should not be eliminated.** He was re-nominated to the post in May 2026 and confirmed three months later, succeeding Robert Fenton, who had been acting since May 12, 2026. He inherits an agency GAO found had lost roughly 4,500 employees since January 2025 and had been operating without a strategic plan since May 2025. See [[FEMA]] and [[DHS Component Tree]]. ## See also - [[FEMA]] - [[Department of Homeland Security]] - [[Markwayne Mullin]] - [[DHS Component Tree]]