Trump denies disaster aid for 4 Democratic-led states

[muriel_volestrangler]

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

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Via Charles Pierce: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71872819/trump-fema-disaster-aid-red-states-blue-states/

I regret to inform you all that this renegade bag of sins is impeachable ... again.
...
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.
...
Nobody who worked for this administration should be allowed to hold a government job ever again.

[sheshe2]

1. Bastard!

I hope he and the rest of his Klan rot in hell.

[MLWR]

10. Hell is way too good for them.

[sheshe2]

13. Not the one I have in mind.

[groundloop]

2. Those states need to give him a Peace Prize

[spike jones]

6. The peace of shit prize.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

3. Find a legal (or not)

For withholding federal taxes.

[BlueKota]

5. This!

[BurnDoubt]

22. Write It Off!!!!!

And then claim an audit for the next 300 years.
That’s what the “smart” taxpayers (or not) do.

This is a literal hostage tactic.
This entire Regime needs to be Impeached and remanded to GITMO to feed on each other until the stench goes away.

[FakeNoose]

4. CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS!

[samplegirl]

7. He is a monster!!!!

[paleotn]

8. Time to pack our bags and leave.

If you're behind the Red Curtain, feel free to join us while you can.

[Karasu]

9. How the fuck can Jackson say that shit with a straight face when he is both the only president who has ever politicized

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relief and has consistently done it for as long as he's been in office? She is an absolute joke.

[RussBLib]

11. What a scumbag

President of all Americans? Not this guy.

Saw a short blurb where Trump called Iran scum. “You know what scum is?” he asked the reporter.

YOU, ASSHOLE! someone should have replied, forcefully.

(I wish we could have larger fonts)

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[dave99]

12. Abigail Jackson , born to lie

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. He is the president of MAGA and Republicans. The rest can go get stuffed

[Norrrm]

15. Those states also have MAGAs as residents who can suffer losses.

[LilElf70]

16. How can any of this bull shit

be legal? I sure hope someone is on top of this. Unbelievable.

[wolfie001]

18. The "Shit 6" will OK it

If it even gets to them. Nasty christo-fascist scum.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Can't help but be an asshole

[purr-rat beauty]

19. These policies are actual attacks

On our Nation

[Puppyjive]

20. Time to stop paying federal taxes

Taxation without representation.

[Prairie Gates]

21. Republicans, you may be laughing now, but remember that you may lose the Presidency one day

and that the people who elect a Democratic President will be demanding the same treatment for Republican states, to teach you a lesson.

Pray for good weather, citizens.

Shit always comes around, remember.