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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: abuelita who wrote (32766)	9/4/2017 3:20:40 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362332

Star Spangled Banner = Pence Held Hurricane Katrina Relief Funds Hostage to Push His Political Agenda 8/29/2016 “ Congress must ensure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren.” That’s then-Rep. Mike Pence in 2005, fearmongering about the federal debt as justification for his efforts to hold Hurricane Katrina relief funding hostage so he could push for Medicare spending cuts and other goals on his political agenda. It’s telling what Pence did — or didn’t do — when he had a chance to help people in the wake of a natural disaster. When it came down to it, Pence decided his political agenda was more important than helping people in Louisiana who had lost everything; he unapologetically tried to hold essential relief funding hostage so he could go after equally crucial earned benefits that millions of American seniors rely on. Pence’s actions in the wake of Katrina are a cautionary tale of how a Trump-Pence administration would act in the wake of a natural disaster. Trump’s made a career of putting himself first, no matter who gets hurt in the process, and his erratic personality and consistently unsound judgment raise serious concerns that he’d actually be counter-productive in a time of crisis. There’s no question Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be commander-in-chief, and in light of Mike Pence’s politicization of Katrina relief funding, there’s no reason to believe Pence is any better prepared. Background: