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(85,917 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 11:30 AM Aug 2020

This is how you run a dictatorship

...you don't dole out emergency funds like personal patronage in a democracy.

Daniel Dale @ddale8
White House says Florida and Texas will continue to have their full coronavirus Guard costs covered while other states won't because "Florida and Texas were the only states to make special, direct cases to the President."




(CNN)President Donald Trump agreed to continue paying for the full cost of National Guard troops deployed to help with the coronavirus response in just two states -- Texas and Florida -- after their Republican governors appealed directly to him.

Other states will now have to pay a quarter of the cost of National Guard deployments in their states, despite their governors also requesting the federal government continue to foot the entire bill. A White House official said Trump made an exception for Texas and Florida because their governors -- who enjoy close relationships with Trump -- made "special, direct cases to the President."


The official said Trump "is open to speaking with any governor from any state."
While Texas and Florida both have a large number of coronavirus cases -- more than 466,000 and 502,000, respectively -- other states with large numbers of cases, like California and Arizona, will only see three-quarters of the costs covered by the federal government.

Asked why Texas and Florida received special treatment, the White House official pointed only to the direct appeals from those states' governors, not unique circumstances in those states.

"The governors of Texas and Florida made the case directly to the President that a continuation of the 100% cost share was necessary to support the Guard's efforts in their states," a White House official told CNN. "Florida and Texas were the only states to make special, direct cases to the President."


read: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/trump-national-guard-coronavirus-texas-florida/index.html
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This is how you run a dictatorship (Original Post) bigtree Aug 2020 OP
special, direct cases...is that code for fellatio. Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #1
I'll be watching for onethatcares Aug 2020 #2
FUCK TRUMP Blue Owl Aug 2020 #3

onethatcares

(16,132 posts)
2. I'll be watching for
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 11:54 AM
Aug 2020

the large brown ring around ronnie deathsentences lips next time he's on the teevee.

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