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| The one achievement from Trump's post-Hurricane Harvey visit to Texas was the marketing of new USA caps for sale on the Trump website ($40). Melania's FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States) cap is not on the website, but there are lots of knock-offs selling at $19. |
EDITOR’S NOTE: Texas alone asked for $66 billion.
Trump’s aid funding request is not only far less, but also is supposed to help
rebuild Florida and Puerto Rico. The request is, however, consistent with Trump’s
style when it comes to paying for construction projects, which is to stiff the
contractors and dare them to sue. – Will Collette
It’s been two months
since the state was devastated by Hurricane Harvey and Donald Trump has failed
on his promise to rebuild Texas.
Abbott’s criticism is
strikingly different than the day after Trump visited Texas in the aftermath of
the hurricane.” His commitment was firm, strong and unequivocal,” Abbott said at the time. “That he was going to do everything he could
to ensure that Texas will be restored as swiftly, as effectively as possible.”
But now, two months later, Republicans are
calling the response “wholly inadequate,” according to the Dallas
News.
The White House disaster relief aid request falls well short of
the demands made by officials from Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.
Greg Abbott said that the
request “does not live up” to what Trump pledged in recovery aid. Abbott noted
during a news conference that he’s still reviewing the White House request but
that it appears to be “completely inadequate.”
What’s more, Abbott said, it “does not live up” to what Trump
has pledged in recovery aid, then he said that Washington worked faster for
victims of Superstorm Sandy than for Harvey. Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012
during the Obama administration, by the way.
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| View from Trump's Puerto Rico news conference. He gave the residents paper towels and a lot of incentive to move to Florida. |
It’s not just Abbott. Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the No. 2
Republican, blasted the request as “wholly inadequate.” A chorus of Texas
lawmakers slammed it as insufficient.
Houston Rep. John
Culberson, a Republican and appropriations committee member, ripped Trump’s
recovery efforts, calling the request a “complete lack of understanding of the
fundamental needs of Texans” and said it is a “nightmare” for Harvey survivors.
Democrats, too, including
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, are
criticizing the measure as measly.
If only someone has warned
Abbott and his Republican colleagues to not trust Trump, then maybe they
wouldn’t be so shocked. Maybe we would have a different leader who has the
ability to deal with critical issues. Wait, they were warned, weren’t they?
Author Conover Kennard
makes tea partiers cry as a hobby. She was Commander of Jade Helm15 during the
failed takeover of the South. She’s also one of the biggest arseholes on
Twitter. At night, she can be found drinking Conservative tears while pulling
off the wings of flies just because she can. She is the founder of a Marxist,
Commie, Maoist, Socialist site and has contributed to several other sites, blah
blah blah. She is an awful person but she doesn’t like to brag about that.
