Federal disaster aid is nearly everywhere.
FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a news conference, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, at the Tampa Electric Company offices in Tampa, Fla. 700 less jobs, pay raise for first responders, gun sales tax holiday: DeSantis announces new state budget proposal
FILE - The devastation from the Palisades Fire is visible in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jan. 27, 2025. FILE - Robert Turick, 68, works to clear household debris that Hurricane Milton storm surge swept from other properties into his canal-facing back yard, in Englewood, Fla., Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. FILE - A property owner who preferred not to give his name peers into the remains of the second floor unit where he lived with his wife while renting out the other units, on Manasota Key, in Englewood, Fla., following the passage of Hurricane Milton, Oct. 13, 2024.
“It's clear that climate is not a red or blue challenge,” said Amy Chester, the atlas creator and Rebuild by Design's director. “Communities are suffering whether you are a red state or blue state.” The six swing states that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and Donald Trump in 2024 – and states with split U.S. Senate delegations – get considerably less FEMA aid per person, averaging only $35 per capita. Those purple states have 15% of the country’s population but get only 2.5% of the FEMA aid.
Twelve congressional districts have had at least a dozen federally declared disasters since 2011; three-quarters of them are represented by Republicans. Those are in Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Texas, Vermont and West Virginia.
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