Whether or not a state receives federal disaster aid under the Trump administration appears to boil down to their vote in the 2024 presidential election.
Donald Trump unlocked Federal Emergency Management Agency aid for several states this week, including Alaska, Nebraska, and North Dakota, but he denied it to others seemingly along party lines.
In multiple posts to Truth Social over the course of the week announcing the aid, Trump boasted that he had “won BIG” in Alaska and was honored to extend federal financial assistance to the “incredible Patriots” of Missouri.
Meanwhile, three states that recently voted blue received nothing: Vermont, Illinois, and Maryland.
22 Comments
lemmyseikai@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 304d
So Vermont, Illinois and Maryland citizens need to stop paying federal income taxes (but keep paying FICA for now).
No taxation without representation, or at least "No taxation without providing the services my taxes pay for."
EpicMuch@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 304d
That slogan hasn’t worked for WDC yet
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 304d
Technically, DC isn't a state. Which, unfortunately means it's more vulnerable to Trump's manipulation. They don't have the same legal protections.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 304d
Maryland should take it's lands back from the feds, kick the fuckers into the sea.
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 304d
FICA?
lemmyseikai@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 304d
Social Security and Medicare.
That said, given the shutdown I guess cutting FICA taxes is fine too.
I don't like cutting funding to public social services.
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 303d
Fair, but it might end up in Trumps big slush fund the way things are going
DrFistington@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
Yup, that's what I'm thinking. I mean I'll set the money aside in a bond or fund that will grow, and if I eventually have to pay it, I will. But hopefully there will be a class action which can help shield people while the suit is ongoing
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 304d
And if the lower courts intervene, SCOTUS will again rule that Trump is King and appointed by God.
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 304d
At which point, people should start dumping tariffed goods in Boston Harbor, right?
morriscox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 303d
"It's an official act."
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 304d
states that are not receiving services they paid for should be storming the white house
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 304d
They should stop paying their share of federal taxes.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 304d
So this asshole is abandoning people that supported him, too.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 15 pts · 304d
Always has, always will.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 304d
There's a Watergate every fucking day
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 304d
people in every state voted for him
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 304d
Perhaps someone should have a talk with him.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 304d
Who's going to have the balls to go after these fascist pigs and get them thrown in jail cells when Trump is no longer in office?
InTheTreetop@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 304d
Azki25@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 304d
Sheesh. Here comes a dictatorship
drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 304d
looks around it been here, homie
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 303d
And still the people do nothing.