The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The vote was 95-4 on Tuesday for Brock Long. He previously ran Alabama’s Emergency Management Agency and served as that state’s on-scene incident commander during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The agency has already managed 41 disaster declarations this year and the Trump administration has proposed cutting nearly $1 billion from the agency’s budget. Long takes over the agency at the beginning of hurricane season. It took less than two weeks to confirm him…and it comes just as Tropical Storm Cindy is set to dump as much as 2 feet of rain on Louisiana and eastern Texas.