FEMA headquarters in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/File

After years of promoting baseless claims of voter fraud that President Donald Trump has frequently touted, a conservative activist has landed a top position at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The activist Gregg Phillips shot to fame after launching the narrative that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election. His claims, made through the Texas-based nonprofit True the Vote , quickly caught fire in right-wing media circles and were cited by Trump, who used them to try to justify why he lost the popular vote.

Now, Phillips has been tapped to head FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery – a senior post overseeing the deployment of federal resources in the immediate afterm

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