Trump refuses to declare state of emergency for blue state Virginia
Is Trump playing politics with disaster relief?
Trump has ignored pleas from Virginia’s Democratic governor and its congressional delegation and, to date, has refused to declare a state of emergency for the Democratic-leaning state as Hurricane Florence, a monster storm, takes aim at the mid-Atlantic coast.
Late on Monday
night, Trump declared state of emergencies for Republican-friendly North Carolina and South Carolina, even though hurricane forecasts clearly indicate Virginia could suffer catastrophic damage from the historic, Category 4 or 5 hurricane:
Millions of people have already been evacuated in advance of the storm. The mid-Atlantic states are bracing for the first Category 4 or 5 hurricane to make landfall there in nearly two decades.
Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam told NPR on Tuesday morning that he had spoken to Trump on Monday and “
encouraged” him to declare a state of emergency for the Commonwealth.
Northam had already
declared a local state of emergency over the weekend.
Also, on Monday Virginia’s entire Congressional delegation took the unusual step of
writing to Trump and asking for help.
“A federal emergency declaration would ensure the full availability of federal resources to support the Commonwealth’s efforts to guarantee public safety and rapid recovery from the direct and indirect effects of Hurricane Florence,” the congressional lawmakers
wrote. “It is increasingly likely that Virginia will face damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and potentially life-threatening storm surge flooding due to Hurricane Florence.”
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Trump is a serious scum bag.