It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump

Three times harder? I was under the impression it was flat out impossible. Did he ever give a dime for the California wildfires, or did he just keep telling them to turn on the pipes?

>Here are the findings: >Trump’s 23 percent approval rate of Democratic requests is unprecedented. Every president since Reagan has approved at least 67 percent of requests from Democratic-led states. Republican Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump in his first term each approved a higher percentage of requests from Democratic states than from Republican states. >Trump has taken 80 days on average to approve or deny requests from Democratic-led states — compared to 39 days for Republican-led states. >Trump has been openly partisan on social media about using disaster funding for political purposes. He has linked his decisions to grant aid with his electoral victories in Republican-led states. >Eight out of Trump’s 10 denials for Democratic-led states came despite FEMA having documented high levels of damage after on-the-ground inspections. Previous presidents have rarely denied disaster aid for events that caused as much damage as FEMA found for the eight denials. >Trump’s denials of Democratic-led states overwhelmingly affected counties that supported him in 2024, suggesting that Trump’s rejections were directed at state leaders who oppose him politically.

And we're funding the national government!  It's our f****** money! It's beyond outrageous-- socialism for rural whites, funded by people who live in cities, propel advances in science and culture, and actually contribute to the GDP.

The president of the United States is an evil miserable garbage man

>President Donald Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. >He approved just 23 percent of disaster funding requests from states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators since returning to office 14 months ago. For states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators, it’s the opposite — Trump has approved 89 percent of their requests. >There has never been such a sharp partisan disparity in the approval of federal disaster funds since FEMA was created in 1979, according to a review of 2,500 natural disaster declarations by POLITICO’s E&E News. >The denials have blocked Democratic-led states from getting a total of $250 million in disaster aid that would have been approved by every previous president including Trump in his first term, E&E News found. >Trump rejected most of the requests even after FEMA had documented that the damage met its financial threshold to warrant receiving federal aid.

I don’t care what politics a state has. Everyone is an American citizen and all deserve the same assistance.

Remember this as you pay federal taxes that overwhelmingly support poor red states.

lower all expectations. statehood self-sufficiency is the name of the game now.

Trump wants civil war. Plain and simple. At this point blue states need to start saying f it and with hold taxes to the fed and just take the money. Call trump want it is and say they are responding to deal with.

Article without paywall: https://archive.is/7tiXz

Can we just end this stupid "union" already? Cut states like Oklahoma and Louisiana free and let them be Texas' or Florida's problem.

Im actually shocked by this. That hes approving anything I mean. Hes been pretty openly f****** over red states too.

I am praying we don't have another fire or earthquake here in California. We fund most of the states and it would be criminal to withhold funding from us.

We are two separate countries in everything but name alone.

Good thing most of the major disasters happen to red states

No taxation without representation. We are United or we aren’t. This man doesn’t get to pick who gets what.

"Vote for me or suffer" Trump's 'Pick your poison' two choice question.

Almost like a pedophile nazi is playing nazi.

Isn’t this a form of taxation without representation?

They won't get anything after No Kings!

Yep, the make it easy for their buddies, and as hard as possible for everybody else.

Then hopefully only red states will suffer disasters.

I'm curious as to how he would label my home state, Virginia. The whole state is mostly conservative except for northern VA, where I was born, which is the most populous region and in many elections since the 2000s have turned the whole state blue.

And we are still paying taxes to the federal government why? Maybe it’s time for independence

I hate this guy

Its covid 2.0 all over. He made blue states jump through hoops just to get needed supplies

We should pay 1/3 of our taxes

Well….. the fraud might be a reason……