No disaster relief funding for states boycotting Israel, US says

(Glorious Trump supports convicted child sex traffickers, protects the secrets of convicted child rapists and now denies you disaster relief assistance if your state just happens to reject supporting a nation currently starving children and committing genocide so they can steal more fucking land.

This is what you voted for though, right?) 

from PressTV

The administration of US President Donald Trump has declared that states and cities boycotting Israeli firms will be denied federal funding for natural disaster preparedness, marking a new level of support for its ally, even as Israel faces global condemnation over its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said in grant notices posted on Friday that states must follow its "terms and conditions" to qualify for funding, including  certifying they will not cut “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies.”

According to the notices, the condition applies to at least $1.9 billion that states rely on to cover expenses related to search-and-rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries and backup power systems.

In April, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees FEMA, said that boycotting Israel is prohibited for states and cities receiving its grant funds.

The development comes as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which promotes economic pressure on Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories, has been gaining popularity after the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in 2023...

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Why Kristi Noem hates FEMA

(Destroying the government, smaller government, is neoliberalism. Trump is a neoliberal globalist who hates our system of democracy. Our system of government.) 

from Salon

First things first: Mainstream media reports that Donald Trump has “backed away” or “scrapped” plans to destroy the Federal Emergency Management Agency are greatly exaggerated. Trump is just doing what he always does when faced with intense public scrutiny of his unpopular positions: Lying. As usual, he will go right back to doing the bad thing as soon as the news cycle moves on to something else. Right now, the aftermath of the tragic floods in Texas is dominating the news, so Trump will pretend he has no desire to end the federal agency doing the heroic work of helping people in the state recover and regroup. 

The misleading Washington Post headline from Friday, which claimed Trump “moves away” from abolishing FEMA was immediately undercut by the actual reporting, which revealed the White House is using weasel words like “rebranding” and “reorganizing” to conceal that the goal of destroying the agency has not changed. Observing that Trump “has dialed up and down his aversion to the agency, depending on the occasion,” the reporters noted that White House spokespeople continued to insist that the agency is part of “a bloated bureaucracy” and talked about how it’s the job of states to deal with natural disasters, not the federal government. Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of homeland security, admitted out loud to the Post that, under Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “FEMA, as it is today, will no longer exist.”...

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