Stealing money from disaster victims to please the Deplorables
by digby
They will probably reverse this now, but seriously. What is wrong with these people?
President Donald Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Hurricane Harvey, but his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president’s border wall.
The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief account is part of a spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when Congress returns from its August recess. The $876 million cut, part of the 1,305-page measure’s homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump’s down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
There’s only 2.3 billion left in the disaster fund anyway, so they’ll probably leave it alone.
But Trump is going out on the stump to hold a rally for tax cuts as we speak. Today. While southeastern Texas is still drowning.
He’s running the country like one of his failed casinos. And we know how that turned out.
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