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On Thursday, Rep. Andy Harris told Newsmax that money for wildfire aid isn’t a priority for Republicans because “we just put more money into FEMA before we left for the Christmas holidays,” and the Maryland Republican claimed that Los Angeles “mishandled the fire department so egregiously that they ought to bear some of the burden for that rebuilding.”
Persecution complex always at the ready. I did see one story where some segment of them had been told to avoid places with lots of Trump signs, but the reason was for the worker safety because of the hostility by the right wing. So basically in that case they created a self fulfilling prophecy.
Notably, local conservatives out firing guns at FEMA who showed up to try and save their lives.
If I’m helping save your life and you send a bullet whizzing past my head then yeah, I’m going to leave you where you are as well.
This, of course, was reported as “FEMA is refusing to help Republicans!” and not “Local Conservatives perform war crime, fire deadly weapons at humanitarian aid”
Minor details, the FEMA folks just need to toughen up and bring kevlar next time /s
Not just that, but some representatives were pissed because the broader Republican party seemed to want to undermine recovery efforts to make it look worse for Biden… Then after the election asserting a bill was in the name of helping them while that bill still did nothing at all for those afflicted.