Well, you know; Houston is a very rich community (4th largest city in the U.S.), so why do they need federal money from all us taxpayers? My observation.
I asked Hubby that the other day. Isn’t that why responsible people carry insurance?
Yes, this isn’t their money that the politicians are giving away. It’s ours. Charity is voluntary or it’s not charity. I have never understood how politicians, especially liberals, are considered to be compassionate and generous for giving away money that isn’t theirs.
As a Houstonian, I don’t particularly want the feds in here. I figure that they’ll just make things more complicated while lining their pockets. We and Texas know how to take care of ourselves...and way too many others (see: Katrina).
That said, because George W. Bush had such a pansy, anemic ability to defend himself, he capitulated in the face of unwarranted criticism to his government’s response and shoved untold billions of dollars into NOLA after Katrina. As we know, there was immense graft that came with that money. HOWEVER, Bush set the precedent for federal disaster response that no President will ever be able to go against again.
Trump knows this, and he’s got more important fish to fry. And his party in Congress are a bunch of uncooperative, subversive, limp-dicked assholes to him and the American people. If he steamrolls them in a situation like this, I don’t care. And he gets to say that he was “bipartisan” and then hold that up against both sides when it serves his purpose. My only regret is that he didn’t use an actual steamroller on them.