He did fuck around with Blue states in his first term. For just one example, he withheld federal disaster aid from California after a 2018 wildfire. His aides had to convince him that republicans who supported him were also impacted by the disaster before he would approve the funds:
“We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas … to show him these are people who voted for you."
He did fuck around with Blue states in his first term. For just one example, he withheld federal disaster aid from California after a 2018 wildfire. His aides had to convince him that republicans who supported him were also impacted by the disaster before he would approve the funds:
Oh yeah I remember. And the weaponization of tax code against blue states.
Yep. and halting COVID testing efforts at the beginning when they thought it was mostly going to hit just blue states.