Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfires, and Tornado Season Without FEMA

rimrocker · Mar 25, 2026 at 8:35 AM

Malpractice. And unAmerican. I guess the folks who politicized public health are happy to do the same with disaster response and recovery.

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.
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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.
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Trump’s recent disaster declarations contrast sharply with his first term, when he approved 93 percent of requests from Democratic-led states — compared to 89 percent from states controlled by Republicans.
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Other 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.
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Trump has taken 80 days on average to approve or deny requests from Democratic-led states — compared to 39 days for Republican-led states.
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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.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/...0831199?utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=dlvr.it

Washington, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado better not get any major fires this year (they will). Same with hurricanes for some eastern states and tornados and flooding across the center of the country.

deb4rockets · Mar 25, 2026 at 11:49 AM

rimrocker said: ↑

Malpractice. And unAmerican. I guess the folks who politicized public health are happy to do the same with disaster response and recovery.

Other findings:

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/...0831199?utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=dlvr.it

Washington, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado better not get any major fires this year (they will). Same with hurricanes for some eastern states and tornados and flooding across the center of the country.
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He is so devoid of partisanship and doing what's best for all of the people of this country. Trump is a sociopathic and vengeful man, so full of spite, that he takes pleasure in watching Americans suffer, based on their political party. It's so gross that this psycho is representing the United States of America on our 250th anniversary.

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