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)

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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.

[fujiyamasan]

23. There are plenty of stupid republican voters in those states

Hope they’re happy to live under a president that behaves this way. I’m thinking of New Jersey especially which swung really far right in 2024

[niyad]

24. May all involved receive everything they deserve.

[Gato Moteado]

25. don't you remember when obama did this?

yeah, me neither.

[24601]

43. Are you not remembering because you don't live in Tampa? September 4th, 2015, Tampa Bay Times

https://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/president-obama-rejects-gov-rick-scotts-plea-for-federal-disaster/2244108/

"TALLAHASSEE — President Barack Obama on Thursday rejected Florida Gov. Rick Scott's request for a federal disaster declaration for Tampa Bay's August flooding, adding another chapter in an often antagonistic relationship between the two that dates back to before Scott took office."

"Scott has repeatedly sued the Obama administration over veterans programs and federal hospital funding programs while challenging the Affordable Care Act, which Scott spent millions of dollars of his own money to fight in television commercials even before he ran for governor.

"Now, for at least the fourth time in less than three years, Scott is the recipient of a rejection letter for a disaster declaration from the Obama administration. Since 2004, governors have received disaster declarations sought from the federal government more than 85 percent of the time. But Scott has suffered a 50 percent rejection rate since taking office in 2011."

And thanks for asking the question - it deserved a serious answer.

[durablend]

26. Pretty sure the northeast states recently hit with wind damage/flooding are getting the same--NOTHING

[William Seger]

27. New proof nearly every day: #rump is a shitty president because he's a shitty human being (nt)

[prerev]

28. Petulant Brat

Manboy needs to die soon.

[JT45242]

29. no one in this administration should be allowed out of prison ever again (maybe in 20 years they can be paroled)

USAID cuts alone should be considered a war crime.

Supporting the genocide in Gaza -- war crime

The bombing of fishing boats war crimes

The insider trading and market manipulation -- felony crimes

Failure to release the Epstein files...

I could go on but , I think the point is made

[ColoringFool]

30. God, If You're Listening, It's Me, ALL OF HUMANITY!!!!!

SUBTRACTING CERTAIN VOTERS AND BILLIONAIRES, BUT OTHERWISE, HELLOOOOOO??

[3catwoman3]

31. "...there is no politicization to the President's decisions on disaster relief..."

BULLSHIT!

[SamuelAdams]

32. If blue states stopped paying taxes to and taking aid from the federal government, it would collapse.

We can get along fine without the red states. They desperately need us. Maybe Republicans ought to think about that before playing these games.

[Lars39]

36. Putin would love that scenario.

Possibility that’s the plan.

[Biophilic]

33. Remember this republicans. We will.

[Botany]

34. He can't do this. Congress has the power

of the purse.

[LilElf70]

35. All this guy does is

LIE, LIE, LIE !!!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. MaddowBlog-Trump denies disaster aid to four blue states, after approving aid to six red states

A White House spokesperson said there is “no politicization to the president’s decisions on disaster relief.” There’s compelling evidence to the contrary.

A White House spokesperson insisted there’s “no politicization to the president’s decisions on disaster relief.”

There’s some pretty compelling evidence to the contrary.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-07-09T18:58:56.730Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-fema-politicizing-disaster-aid-blue-states

The White House was already facing credible allegations of having politicized federal disaster relief funds, and in recent days, concerns reached a new level. Politico reported:

President Donald Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states in a move that is raising new questions about whether he’s injecting political motivations into emergency management decisions.

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.

The pattern has hardly gone unnoticed.

Members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation sent the president a letter earlier this week, explaining, “On the same day you approved major disaster declarations for several Republican-led states, you chose to leave Rhode Islanders out in the cold. It is unacceptable to politicize the disaster declaration process.”.....

In other words, even as the White House tells the public that “there is no politicization to the president’s decisions on disaster relief,” Trump has literally connected campaign endorsements to his approvals for aid requests, a move that has no precedent in American history.

PETERS: Yes or no, do you think it's right for a president to approve disaster aid based on whether a state voted for him instead of the amount of damage in the state? This chart behind me is pretty dramatic

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: That's not my experience of the president

P: This chart speaks volumes

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-02T20:00:31.487Z

.....“Never in my lifetime has a president treated disaster relief as a political cudgel,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said in response to the data. “What President Trump has done to politicize disaster relief and hold up support for Americans who need it — including my constituents in Washington state — is frankly unforgivable.”

[lpbk2713]

38. Trump is not the President of the United States

Obviously he prefers to be the President of the Republicans.

[LudwigPastorius]

39. Once again, Trump is a traitor to the Constitution and his Oath of Office.

[Fla Dem]

40. He's SCUM.

[raccoon]

41. Can those states sue the Bastard?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. trump only wants to give disaster aid to republican voting communities