Political Quotes

“So one of the things that is confusing for everybody, including us, about this moment is that it is not clear whether there is consistency or inconsistency. So you may be right that they are going to try to just destroy FEMA writ large and erase from existence the ability for our country to come together in a patriotic way to try to help out our neighbors when a natural disaster hits. But it can't be coincidental that they launched the idea to destroy FEMA in California, when a very blue State was responding to a terrible disaster, right? That doesn't seem coincidental. It doesn't, also, seem coincidental that the first big infrastructure project that the President came out and said that he would be defunding was also in California, while an equally big city-to-city, high-speed infrastructure project in Florida is on no one's radar screen. And so this may be a consistent nationwide assault on public services, but it also may be--or in addition may be--simply a grift in order to provide services and grants in States that are loyal to the President--meaning they voted for him--and to deny services to States that are not loyal. We have not, historically, cared at all whether a natural disaster hit a State that sends Democrats or Republicans to the U.S. Senate.…”