Trump's people keep pushing this line, that states should pay for their own disaster relief, like it wouldn't render most of the country but especially red states uninhabitable and lead to a violent revolt against the government.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/20/fema-states-disasters-exclusive-energy-environment-01128120
This is mostly a way for Trump to fuck New York and California because they're blue states but they actually have money and would eventually be forced to tax billionaires to pay for it, whether Gavin Newsom wants to or not.
But what happens when, e.g., Alabama has a natural disaster and can't rebuild because THE STATE IS FUCKING BROKE.