{"id":20733,"date":"2025-12-12T23:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20733"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:24:27","slug":"fema-is-forcing-towns-to-fend-for-themselves-and-trump-opens-gold-card-visa-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20733","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Is Forcing Towns to Fend for Themselves, and Trump Opens \u2018Gold Card\u2019 Visa Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trump&#8217;s FEMA is denying more disaster recovery requests. It seems blue states are having more trouble than red states. Trump has used FEMA aid to threaten states about immigration enforcement. The administration says states should shoulder more of the burden of disaster recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has put former directors of a chemical industry group in charge of regulating chemicals. They have chosen to loosen regulations, saying that workers can protect themselves by wearing the appropriate gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FEMA Is Forcing Towns to Fend for Themselves, and Trump Opens \u2018Gold Card\u2019 Visa Applications\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hsYdXRiDFFM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s FEMA is denying more disaster recovery requests. It seems blue states are having more trouble than red states. Trump has used FEMA aid to threaten states about immigration enforcement. The administration says states should shoulder more of the burden of disaster recovery. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has put former directors of a chemical industry group in charge of regulating chemicals. They have chosen to loosen regulations, saying that workers can protect themselves by wearing the appropriate gear. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hsYdXRiDFFM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,564,493,25,170,1179],"class_list":["post-20733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-fema","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-trump","tag-visas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20735,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions\/20735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}