Trump says he may withhold disaster funding from California if they don’t obey him as president: “I'm gonna say ‘either do this or we're not gonna give you a lot of different things.’ And they'll do it”
He did that with COVID. Told states they had to be nice to him. Jared called the national stockpile "theirs" FL got twice their requested PPE. IL was sent regular masks. Pritzker hired secret flights b/c the FBI confiscated PPE delivered to blue states.
I was a northern Cali resident when Paradise was wiped out. The “will they, won’t they” help my friends up there was kind of fuckin spooky when Trump was prez!
In a functioning America this alone would be disqualifying. But then so would many other things
That's cool. We'll just stop feeding the rest of the country I guess.
Our flag already says "California Republic" right on it. We wouldn't even need to make a new one.
The larger picture is that he’s declaring that any federal funding would be subject to his discretion, and every state gets federal fending. Ex: Medicaid. It’s how he will dictate to the states. Blackmail.
No, we won't.
Thank you, John Roberts, for clarifying that the courts will provide no guardrails against Trump 2.0’s tyrannical retribution.
It's not like he did Jack Shit about the forest fires.