Hamilton’s firing didn’t just remove a bureaucrat; it ripped out one of the last internal voices willing to say that disaster relief can’t be run like a cable-news segment. His testimony to Congress was blunt: storms don’t care about state borders, and no governor can conjure aircraft, engineers, and cash at the speed a Category 4 landfall demands. FEMA, for all its flaws, is the only structure built to move that fast at that scale.
