Live Storm Map: Track the Republicans who defunded FEMA as Hurricane Isaias approaches landfall
Hurricane Isaias is strengthening as it heads for Gulf Coast — CNN
Musk Targeted FEMA. Storm-Battered Communities Are Paying a Price. — NYT
- Republicans Vote Against FEMA Funding
- Trump and Elon Musk gut National Weather Service
- Republicans give ICE $85,000,000,000
Click for the latest storm details and the MAGA rep who voted to defund FEMA to give tax cuts Elon Musk and other Republican donors. VOTE to hold Republicans accountable.
Gutting FEMA to give tax cuts to billionaires! Really?
A post from Elon Musk last month trumpeted: The Federal Emergency Management Agency had provided $59 million to house undocumented immigrants in New York City. The money, he declared, was “meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals!”
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But if Mr. Musk’s goal was to funnel more FEMA money to disaster aid, the fallout from his declaration had the opposite effect.
A pair of Trump administration orders, issued soon after the Feb. 10 social media post, … effectively freezing payments on billions of dollars in disaster grants…
While the freeze did not stop aid going directly to disaster survivors, it has disrupted payments to states, local governments and nonprofits, with ramifications being felt across the country. — NY Times excerpts
Musk is a national hazard
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