Posted on 08/16/2020 1:17:10 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the first four states to receive grants intended to replace lost wages for Americans who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus. Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana and New Mexico are the first states to agree to administer a program providing an additional $300 per week for unemployed people on top of unemployment insurance.
FEMA said in a statement that the agency would work with Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham as they "implement state systems to make this funding available to the residents of their states."
Ducey and Reynolds are both Republicans, while Edwards and Lujan Grisham are both Democrats. Arizona and Iowa are both considered to be key swing states in the upcoming election.
This move by FEMA comes after President Trump took executive action earlier this month to make $44 billion from the agency's Disaster Relief Fund available to states to supplement unemployment insurance. Congress passed a coronavirus relief bill in March that provided an extra $600 per week in enhanced unemployment benefits, but this provision expired at the end of July. Congress and the White House were unable to reach a deal on further relief legislation...
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Damn I love trump...distruping outside the box now.
Pelosi must be stomping around like Rumplestilskin.
Notice how this is written, as if the President does not command FEMA. The media are doing everything they can to deceive the public into believing that the Deep State does and should operate independently from the President of the United States. They do the same every time the Labor Dept puts out a new unemployment number. They act as if the President should be just as surprised by the number of jobs created as the anti-American media are.
The media are the true DEPLORABLES.
But more and more of the people are seeing it. That’s good.
All Media Are Bastards
So hard her puppeteer broke a string, no doubt.
Watch, her line will be “Trump cuts unemployment benefits in half amid pandemic”
Not at all. Pelosi is very happy to have residents of liveral states suffer in order to further the DEMs' agenda. Campaign fodder and all.
*liberal
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