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As hurricane season starts, Trump is making sure you won't get FEMA help
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/30/trump-fema-disaster-assistance-hurricane-season/83922556007/Fingers crossed, Florida. We are going to need some luck this hurricane season because were about to get screwed like never before.
I dont know where the storms will go, but Im pretty sure the federal umbrella of help weve always relied on will be in tatters.
Thats because the gutting and defunding of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is one of the many bits of collateral damage to the Trump administrations dogged efforts to heap tax-savings windfalls on the very rich.
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U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who was Floridas emergency management director before he was elected to Congress, told his colleagues recently that hurricanes along the Gulf Coast would have catastrophic financial repercussions on the Trump-voting states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama without FEMA.
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marble falls
(65,740 posts)1. He's thoughful that way. Buy yer own rolls of paper towels.
Haggard Celine
(17,209 posts)2. It's going to be awful for whoever gets it this year,
and some of us will be suffering. Maybe Trump will start one of his bullshit charities to raise money for hurricane victims.
Girard442
(6,644 posts)3. ...but pocket the money.
lark
(25,064 posts)4. Motherfucker grounded the hurrican hunter planes.
He's trying to kill off the poor and working class in the southern coastal states. You can be sure the governors will priortize the rich and let the rest of us rot! It will be just like the start of the Covid vaccines where some states (including Fl) only supplied the vaccine to the rich and would not make any available for the working class or poor. The only thing that saved us was Biden changing the distribution so that it went to the drug co's to inject all the people - not just their cherished rich.