ai6yr: Politico: It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under TrumpThe president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states. "...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...."https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/23/trump-denies-disaster-aid-for-democratic-led-states-00831199?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHjVSibe6y29fPJwa7XV8VFCa9vYsUxOrraq7qBpQsDJNsTLKFx5B71Pu-kQi_aem_wHwNj_f60fa_dxJjqV2xjg#FEMA #disasters #USpol

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:58:02 +0900
disasters, uspol

Politico: It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump

The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.

"...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...."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/23/trump-denies-disaster-aid-for-democratic-led-states-00831199?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHjVSibe6y29fPJwa7XV8VFCa9vYsUxOrraq7qBpQsDJNsTLKFx5B71Pu-kQi_aem_wHwNj_f60fa_dxJjqV2xjg