Unfortunately, dealing with natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are often very political. The idea of Trump using a disaster like this to gain political leverage is outrageous in my opinion. If I were in his shoes I would give everything that I could to help Texas recover from a once in a lifetime storm. Im interested to hear some of your opinions in regards to how you might help with the recovery efforts in Texas.
Monday, September 4, 2017
Hurricane Harvey Shifts Political Winds in Washington
Before Hurricane Harvey hit it seemed like a government shutdown was inevitable. The hurricane was devastating; lives were lost, homes were destroyed, and Texas is in shambles. The unexpected storm did so much damage it is estimated that recovery efforts for Harvey will cost more than it did to rebuild after Katrina and Sandy combined. The recovery efforts will be extremely costly and in order to finance the cleanup law makers, and politicians will have to compromise in order to ensure that financial aid is available in a timely manner. However, Texas is in a delicate location and many believe that Trump will hold off on federal funding towards recovery efforts in attempt to follow through with his plans to combat illegal immigration. However, it is Trump's first time dealing with a natural disaster and it is likely that he will respond by giving Texas the support they need. As the possibility of a government shutdown grew, lawmakers and politicians were expected to vote on a a new bill that would reallocate $876 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agencies budget elsewhere. Obviously, this bill wont pass given the events that have occurred in Texas last week.
Unfortunately, dealing with natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are often very political. The idea of Trump using a disaster like this to gain political leverage is outrageous in my opinion. If I were in his shoes I would give everything that I could to help Texas recover from a once in a lifetime storm. Im interested to hear some of your opinions in regards to how you might help with the recovery efforts in Texas.
Unfortunately, dealing with natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are often very political. The idea of Trump using a disaster like this to gain political leverage is outrageous in my opinion. If I were in his shoes I would give everything that I could to help Texas recover from a once in a lifetime storm. Im interested to hear some of your opinions in regards to how you might help with the recovery efforts in Texas.
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Drew,
ReplyDeleteI understand your stance that using a natural disaster to gain political leverage is outrageous; however, what else is a politician suppose to do? To get anything done on capitol hill you need influence and leverage. What better way to gain both of those things if not by taking advantage of a natural disaster? Additionally, assuming that Trump knows most people are not happy with him, he will most likely do everything he can to try to make this a win for him. However, given his past record, he may find a way to mess this up too.
I think the way you're looking at the whole hurricane situation leads to your stance here, for politicians everything is political. Regardless of how horrible it is people will judge how Trump reacted to this and attribute it to his Presidency. You are looking at the hurricane and politics as 2 separate things, when in reality people will judge based off his response regardless of how bad the hurricane hit Texas. Everything politicians do is political and they can't escape that.
ReplyDeleteDrew,
ReplyDeleteI understand how you think Trump is being outrageous. However, he is making this move at the proper time. Trump understands that the government is tough to just "pass out" money like this (but knows they could at the right time). Personally, I think the best way to recover from this disaster is by reaching out to celebrities and athletes across the U.S. I know that we have enough people willing to rebuild; we just need the sufficient amount of funds.
Nick Braydich
I believe that because a lot of people don't necessarily favor Trump in situations like this, he is judged the hardest. Trump's initial bill is to protect our country, but now clearly is in favor of helping Texas as well as gaining the public's favor. If he's using his political stance to encourage more people to give to the disaster. But in this situation I believe that he is thinking in a way to help our country.
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