(AURN News) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, is calling it what it is: “petty, partisan and punishing.”
The Biden-to-Trump handoff may have shifted power, but the pain in Western Maryland is real — and the Trump administration made it worse, according to Moore.
After devastating floods tore through Allegany and Garrett counties in May — wiping out roads, city vehicles, furnaces and working-class homes — the federal government denied disaster relief.
That’s despite neighboring West Virginia, which had similar damage, being approved for $11.7 million.
Moore isn’t buying FEMA’s silence on why. “His decision was a political decision,” he told reporters Sunday.
Trump’s administration approved West Virginia’s request, but Maryland — a Democratic-led state — got nothing but a letter.
Official damage estimates topped $90 million before FEMA whittled it down to under $16 million — and still denied aid.
Local leaders are appealing the decision, but Moore says he’s done trying to predict how Trump’s administration governs.
