This is just another sign of how disorganized the federal government is…they should be putting food aid out, making sure there isn’t hoarding or that the commercial operators don’t suck up all the food, and managing the entire food chain in the nation. Instead, our current, underfunded charity organizations are going to get slammed with needy people, and have to scramble to try to meet that need. And, in states where the safety net is frayed, that need may not be met, and some people may starve or succumb to disease.
None of this, none of it, would have happened under Obama, either Bush, either Clinton, Carter, Ford…even Nixon and Reagan would have stepped up (the latter was fine letting gays die due to AIDS but he wouldn’t have let that happen here). Trump and the current crop of Republicans care so little for the average American that they made no plans, and did nothing when confronted with a possible emergency, and the end result will be more dead Americans that from any event since WW2 (and we don’t know yet if it may actually surpass even that number). The only question I have is if enough Americans learn the lesson to reject Republicans and their selfishness.