{"id":32289,"date":"2026-08-08T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32289"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:57:00","slug":"senate-confirms-74-nominees-including-new-heads-of-fema-and-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32289","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms 74 nominees, including new heads of FEMA and TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/AP25127708994382-e1746728188637.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n        <iframe id=\"instaread_iframe\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Audio Article\" style=\"display:block\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p><\/instaread-player><\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: A previous version of this article included Trump nominees who have not been confirmed by the Senate. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Senate confirmed dozens of President Trump\u2019s nominees on Friday, the final day of session before the upper chamber of Congress broke for August recess.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-resolution\/817\/text\">single 51-47 vote<\/a>, senators voted to confirm a group of 74 executive nominees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vote fell along party lines, with GOP Sen. Cynthia Lummis (Wy.) and Mitch McConnell (Ky.) not in attendance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know about three notable nominees confirmed under today\u2019s vote:<\/p>\n<p><strong>FEMA Administrator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/6017458-fema-administrator-cameron-hamilton\/\">confirm<\/a> business executive Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/6009019-gao-fema-staffing-disaster-response\/\">turbulent time<\/a> at the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton previously served as the acting leader of FEMA at the beginning of Trump\u2019s second term. He was ousted after he contradicted Trump and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem by saying that the agency should not be eliminated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Hamilton <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/5928239-trump-fema-nominee-disaster-funding\/\">told lawmakers<\/a> during his June confirmation hearing that the agency should \u201cseek to strike a new balance to encourage cost reasonableness and cost savings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>TSA Administrator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Cummins, a senior vice president of government services contractor Serco, will take the helm at the Transportation Security Administration after he was confirmed by the Senate on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>His appointment comes at a time when the Trump administration is pushing to downsize this federal agency and replace some of its airport services with private contractors. In April, the president proposed cutting over 9,400 workers and around $1.5 billion in funding from TSA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cummins outlined his key objectives in this new role in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/news\/press\/releases\/2026\/08\/07\/david-cummins-confirmed-new-tsa-administrator\">Friday press release<\/a> from the agency, including \u201cimproving morale\u201d at the agency, implementing new technology at TSA checkpoints, reducing travel wait times and protecting transportation networks from drone and cyber threats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTSA will deliver on its role to secure the Golden Age of Travel the Trump administration has ushered in,\u201d Cummins said in a statement. \u201cWe do not have to choose between a secure checkpoint, an efficient checkpoint, or an elevated experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Commissioner of Labor Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate approved veteran economist Brett Matsumoto\u2019s nomination as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Matsumoto first joined the BLS in 2015 and most recently worked on the White House Council of Economic Advisors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His appointment follows Trump\u2019s dismissal of former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer last August <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5432920-bls-commisioner-eirka-mcentarfer-trump-firing\/\">over unsubstantiated accusations<\/a> that the long-serving labor economist manipulated an unfavorable July 2025 employment report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Matsumoto assured lawmakers during his June confirmation hearing that he believed \u201cstrongly\u201d in the bureau\u2019s work \u201cto produce objective quality measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important for the public to be confident that decisions at the BLS are being driven by science rather than politics,\u201d he said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hill\u2019s Rachel Frazin contributed reporting.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media Inc. 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The Senate confirmed dozens of President Trump\u2019s nominees on Friday, the final day of session before the upper chamber of Congress broke for August recess.\u00a0 In a single 51-47 vote, senators voted to confirm a group of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/AP25127708994382-e1746728188637.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}