Trump denies disaster aid for 4 Democratic-led states [View all]
Source: Politico
Trump on Friday rejected $227 million in aid requests from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island for help recovering from a major snowstorm in February. Two days earlier, Trump approved Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster aid for six Republican-led states, while extolling the political virtues of GOP politicians and candidates in the states.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement that “there is no politicization to the President’s decisions on disaster relief,” adding that Trump “provides a more thorough review of disaster declaration requests than any Administration has before him.”
Democrats immediately questioned Trump’s denials, arguing that they follow a pattern disclosed by POLITICO in March of Trump mostly rejecting disaster aid for Democratic-led states while approving it for states that are led by officials in his party.
“On the same day you approved major disaster declarations for several Republican-led states, you chose to leave Rhode Islanders out in the cold,” the state’s congressional delegation — comprising four Democrats — told Trump in a letter Monday. “It is unacceptable to politicize the disaster declaration process.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/08/donald-trump-denies-disaster-aid-democratic-states-00989418
Via Charles Pierce: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71872819/trump-fema-disaster-aid-red-states-blue-states/
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I’m no constitutional scholar, but I think it’s rather obvious that running what is essentially a protection racket using taxpayer money does not count as seeing that the laws are faithfully executed.
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Nobody who worked for this administration should be allowed to hold a government job ever again.
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