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Alternet: ‘Not one peep from Trump’: Tornado-ravaged city’s mayor pleads for federal assistance

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At least 28 people across three states were killed when tornadoes struck Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia on Friday, with a governor and a mayor calling them among the worst they’ve ever seen. Unseen, however, has been any acknowledgment or support from President Donald Trump or, according to some reports, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

“What we need right now is federal assistance,” declared St. Louis, Missouri Mayor Cara Spencer on MSNBC (video below) on Monday, “we need federal assistance.”

“This is where FEMA and the federal government has got to come in and help communities,” Mayor Spencer urged. “Our city cannot shoulder this alone. The State of Missouri cannot shoulder this alone. We need partners at the national level, at the federal level to step up and help.”

Spencer explained, “this is what the federal government is for. We need your help, we need the help of the broader community.”

“FEMA has not been on the ground—we do not have confirmed assistance from FEMA at this point,” Spencer said. “I do want to say, however, every other level of government has been on the ground with us, helping in every capacity possible. But when you have a disaster of this scale, eight miles of just pure destruction, this tornado didn’t just touch down and leave, this tornado ripped through our community for a full eight miles in the city of St. Louis …

Memo to St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer: Regretfully our self-absorbed Grifter-in-Chief is busy telling Walmart to “eat it” and has no time for us little people.

‘Not one peep from Trump’: Tornado-ravaged city’s mayor pleads for federal assistance

https://www.alternet.org/the-right-wing/trump-fema-tornadoes

Alternet: ‘Cruelty’: Johnson buried for using ‘classist stereotype’ to justify GOP’s Medicaid cuts

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US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson sets new low records for ignorance and condescension in his analysis of the top source of Medicaid fraud:

Johnson blamed what he suggested is a large number of male gamers on Medicaid for “draining resources.”

“So if you clean that up and shore it up, you save a lot of money, and you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day,” he again declared.

40% of Speaker Johnson’s constituents rely on Medicaid for their health insurances. That’s an awful lot of male gamers draining resources by playing video games all day instead of being out working.

More likely Speaker Johnson, like so many of King Donald’s sycophants, is simply out of touch with reality and needs to move on after his clock is cleaned in the 2026 mid-terms.

‘Cruelty’: Johnson buried for using ‘classist stereotype’ to justify GOP’s Medicaid cuts
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is blaming what he calls “young men” playing video games instead of working, as he defends Republicans’ plan to gut Medicaid—slashing what Democrats say is $880 billion from the vital health program that provides medical care to one in five Americans. “No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid to anyo…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cruelty-johnson-buried-for-using-classist-stereotype-to-justify-gop-s-medicaid-cuts/ar-AA1CH1rv