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Is the FEMA Delay a Preview?
Trump took forever to approve disaster payments, but he finally did it
mister mix
May 27, 2025
A week ago:
TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — More than two months after a tornado demolished his Mississippi home, Brian Lowery still sifts through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band.
“I still have hope,” Lowery said.
He, his wife and 13-year-old son made it to safety before the tornado ripped apart their trailer home of 15 years during a severe weather outbreak in mid-March. But the recovery since has been slow and painful. Mississippi’s request for federal aid is still pending before the Federal Emergency Management Agency, meaning badly needed assistance has not yet made it to his hard-hit community of Tylertown.
Last Friday:
JACKSON, Miss. -- President Donald Trump green-lit disaster relief for eight states on Friday, assistance that some of the communities rocked by natural disasters have been waiting on for months.
The major disaster declaration approvals allow Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas access to financial support through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
This is classic abuser behavior. The delay and suspense, and misery because of it, reinforces the message of Trump’s power over those states. And it sends a message to blue states: look how badly I treated states that voted for me, wait until you need something.
I usually say that incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy for most political actions. I think much of what’s considered incompetence in the Trump administration is on purpose.
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