No federal assistance for states that get hit by natural disasters - that’s the goal.

I say, let that happen. Let a red state like Florida get hit by a Cat 5 and all the other red states say “fuck you, handle your own problems. We ain’t paying for no empathy.”

like Oklahoma (tornadoes).

The past year, they have been cherry-picking who to fund, basically denying blue states and making the red states battle over what scraps of money are left.

Were trounced by tornadoes, high winds, hail and flash flooding just this week. Won't be long before we start hearing their pissed off residents screaming about FEMA not helping them. Shit, the texas flood victims from last year and hurricane victims from two years ago are still waiting for help.

Region who were devastated by that hurricane that came inland and messed up North Carolina's Interior and others are still waiting as are Californians who were devastated by the fires, that's almost two years now as well.

Markwaynemullet better get off his ass and get with it before the pitchfork brigade finds him.

ETA: All that money that went to ICE should have gone to FEMA.

But this is rather more immediate.

The emergency workers must be paid--but there's no funding for that this fiscal year, so FEMA gets the money from fund sources that have the money. Eventually they will run dry, esp. if funds are being paid out for actual emergencies.

They're in the part of government that's officially shut down over the CPB funding issue. But that's okay--better that there be no emergency funding in case of disaster than ICE and CPB get funded. Or not funded. That's the necessary argument on either side, right?

rather than follow the regular appropriations process, with the expectation of mass pardons if challenged for violating the "Antideficiency Act".

H.R. 6128 (97th): A bill to revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to money and finance, as title 31, United States Code, “Money and Finance”.

This is an El Nino year. No hurricanes.

Where's their story about Blue States paying for the $$$ for Red States who hate Blue States. How screwed up is that! The Red States love to take $$$ when they have emergencies but when it comes to funding for any other states they say "fuck you" year after year after year............ Maybe the Blue States should stop paying taxes that provide help for Red States who don't pay any and on top of it are happily taking relief $$$ yet they would not spend a dime to help people in the Blue States who pay for their issues. Blue States don't even get a decent "thank you". Instead we get the middle finger salute from them 99% of the time. And NOW the GOP is not even keeping up with funding in most FEMA areas and issues. The air traffic, the weather, etc has been dismantled by the GOP so now we have less funding and they are causing more FEMA issues than they are resolving. My dead dog could understand this basic fact while the average, ignorant American voters won't figure this out since they CHOOSE to remain ignorant decade after decade (not even year to year anymore). I have had it up to here!!!!! I hate them.

"The states should take care of that!"

States like Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, W.Virginia, South and North Carolina, DO NOT have the Tax generated revenue structures to pay for Disaster relief. Hurricanes, flooding from big storms, tornadoes, and severe droughts, are a result of deforestation, mining, and Climate Change.

Texas it is said, could be "its own country". It could finance its own disaster relief. But other poorer states are not financially set to even provide for basic services.