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https://www.axios.com/2024/10/08/fema-direct-payments-state-recipients
Texas and Louisiana have been Republican-favoring states for some time.
https://www.270towin.com/states/Louisiana
https://www.270towin.com/states/Texas
Florida is more swing, though has been trending Republican:
https://www.270towin.com/states/Florida
I'd guess -- not familiar with the politics -- that maybe there's irritation with FEMA's speed of processing hurricane aid in those states, and that's what's driving Trump's statements. However, if FEMA simply disappeared tomorrow, along with the aid it provided, it'd probably be generally-disadvantageous to Republican-favoring states.
Nah, "get rid of FEMA" has been a thing for a long while, since before 2000. The issue is FEMA looks like a giant black box that does nothing but suck money when they aren't being actively used, at least to the layperson, and when they ARE engaged with a disaster, people don't get that it's almost always local aid networks and such that actually handle distributing things because they know their town and the people who need help better than FEMA does, so they still look like all they're doing is dumping truckloads of supplies off in the middle of the area. They also buy scary things like body bags (because natural disasters tend to wind up with a lot of dead bodies), making dumb people think they have some ulterior, sinister motives (see X-Files).
Oh, I do remember the FEMA conspiracy stuff from back when, believe that that was from the right.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory
Meanwhile voting for fascists who will actually and openly put people they don't favor in camps. JFC
The layperson doesn't think about FEMA at all unless there's been a recent disaster. Regular people aren't making lists of government organizations and cataloging their budgets. If an org hasn't literally just been in the news, they forget it exists.
Probably priorities. Probably the exact opposite of what they claim.
Don’t forget the part where Trump said he didn’t see the point in having federal emergency response people ready to rush in and help. People who would evaluate need and get help where it’s most important …. Instead of what Trump co siders mpst important.
I call uno reverse on these claims that fema only helps the wealthy rather than those who need it most. That is what is not happening, yet. That is what will be happening