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Sarah Huckabee Sanders fights Trump admin's disaster aid denial to ruby-red Arkansas (www.msnbc.com)

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a close ally of Trump, finds herself at odds with his administration after it denied her state's request for federal disaster aid following a series of deadly storms last month.

Trump has floated the idea of eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency and pushing states to potentially fend for themselves in the wake of natural disasters. He’s already denied disaster aid requests from Washington and North Carolina — states led by Democratic governors — and he suggested withholding aid from Democrat-led California unless it institutes a restrictive voter law.

But the denial of disaster aid to Arkansas, a state he won with 64% of the vote in last year’s presidential election, appears to offer fresh evidence that he intends to follow through on his efforts to gut FEMA — even if it potentially harms some of his fiercest supporters.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

By Trump’s logic, gutting FEMA is a cost-saving move. Why should the federal government pay for this shit?

Also, it lets him avoid responsibility for climate change. Paying for the effects of climate change would be like admitting that climate change is real, and we certainly can’t have that.