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Mike Johnson hypocrisy alert!
Apparently in Louisiana calculating actual damages happens even before the hurricane hits. Here on Mike Johnson's own fucking website is Mike urging President Biden to approve relief funding for Hurricane Ida in 2021 even before landfall.
I'm going to put a screenshot of the website here because I don't trust Mike to not take it down:
The important part here: "Due to the ongoing recovery from hurricanes and storms over the last year and the COVID-19 pandemic, the State of Louisiana has determined this incident is of such severity that supplementary federal assistance is necessary to protect its people and communities”
source
edit: It looks like they scrubbed the actual letter on the house.gov website. Dead link is: https://clayhiggins.house.gov/sites/clayhiggins.house.gov/files/8.27.21%20LA%20CODEL%20Ida%20Declaration.pdf
They scrubbed the actual letter??? Dafuq…
Edit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210912130103/https://clayhiggins.house.gov/sites/clayhiggins.house.gov/files/8.27.21%20LA%20CODEL%20Ida%20Declaration.pdf
Guessing this was before Trump lied about FEMA assistance so Trump barked out some orders to deny more for now so he can be right. Politically I can see how it'd hurt Democrats, so maybe not Trump's idea,which is even worse because in the end it'll be the residents who have to deal with it. It'd be nice if people were taught to vote with empathy as well as in their own best interests beyond their bank account.