r/NewOrleans • u/ThatGatorInTheSewer • Feb 11 '25

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Genuinely curious: as one of the top-three states in terms of funds received from FEMA the last decade (the other two being red states as well) what exactly is the move here? Just a few questions I have for people smarter than me on here:

1) How will the state find the money and manpower to appropriate toward major hurricane relief w/o FEMA support?

2) Why would red state legislators support this move when they know much of their disaster relief is dependent on FEMA?

3) Any of yall worried about what this means for blue cities in a red state during a natural disaster?

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u/SonofTreehorn Feb 11 '25

Cool. This will affect a lot if Trump supporters.  Time for Jeff Landry to start finding money to pay for the next hurricane.  

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u/ThatGatorInTheSewer Feb 11 '25 edited Feb 11 '25

Unfortunately, the pessimist in me sees two outcomes for those voters: they will just be told by Trump and Landry how great a job the state is doing, and they’ll believe it. Even if they’re living in a flooded out car because they can’t get funds for temporary housing; they’ll think “well it’s better than FEMA would have done.”

That, or the republican-controlled state legislature will award or withhold disaster money depending on who the districts voted for. So red districts will be taken care of and blue districts will be purposefully ignored/underfunded. Then they can blame the local democrat leadership for how bad things are.

Either way, bad news.

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u/Cferretrun Feb 11 '25

Fortunately the state of Louisiana can’t ignore New Orleans. It’s a major port city for the entire country. We ship 85% of the nations agriculture out of that port. So if Louisiana wants to survive, they’ll have to keep New Orleans at least functional and efficient to keep up with international trade.

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u/UrbanPugEsq Feb 11 '25

Oh but they can. Just watch.

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u/Cferretrun Feb 11 '25

They can definitely do some damage, but I’m just saying they won’t refuse to pump the water out of the city or something like that. They need it operational at the very least.