The Trump administration is shaking up the leadership at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a day after the acting administrator said he opposed abolishing the agency, which Trump has suggested.

Cameron Hamilton will no longer be acting FEMA administrator. David Richardson is taking over that job, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, who did not give a reason for the change.

Pressed during a May 7 House committee hearing about eliminating FEMA, Hamilton said he didn't support it.

“I do not believe it is in the best interest of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” Hamilton said.

Hamilton’s comments were a notable break from the rhetoric of President Donald Trump and other administration officials, who during his second term have remained publicly supportive of his messaging.

“I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away," Trump said while touring flood damage in North Carolina in January, before continuing to Los Angeles, which was devastated by wildfires, where he said, "I say you don't need FEMA, you need a good state government."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who oversees FEMA, reiterated Trump’s position in a May 6 congressional hearing.

“He believes that FEMA and its response in many, many circumstances has failed the American people, and that FEMA, as it exists today, should be eliminated,” Noem said

Hamilton, the FEMA administrator, noted that the agency's future isn’t up to him. He said it's a question for Trump and “this governing body” to decide “what is prudent for federal investment and what is not.”