Donald Trump to donate $1 million to flood relief: White House

A pledge is simply a “promise”, and in this case a promise by President Trump to donate approximately 1/3500th of his net worth to the state of Texas.

After CNN posted an article reporting on Trump’s plans to donate to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts-yes, after-Eric Trump took to the family communication platform (Twitter) to wonder if CNN would cover Trump’s donation.

A Trump administration official and a prominent House of Representatives conservative both said on Thursday that hurricane aid funding should not be tied to the debt limit.

A senior House Republican, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deliberations were private, disclosed the approach.

Harvey made landfall Friday night and has since broken the U.S. record for rainfall from a single storm, CNN senior meteorologist Dave Hennen said – with some areas of the state seeing nearly 52 inches of rain.

Trump began the week pledging to secure funding for relief efforts “very, very quickly” and visited the region on Tuesday. She added that Trump has received detailed briefings, and “talking to a lot of the people on the ground – that certainly is a firsthand account”. McCarthy told lawmakers from Texas and Louisiana on a conference call late Wednesday, “We are with you”, a GOP aide said Thursday. At FEMA, Trump has proposed cutting the disaster relief budget by $667 million, targeting grants that help state and local governments prepare for national disasters.

But much of FEMA’s widely-praised response is the product of laws and procedures that grew under Trump’s predecessors after the government’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. There are human beings in eight feet of water.

There are 30,000 people expected to need shelter of some kind. Individuals of every background are striving for the same goal – to aid and comfort people facing devastating losses.

He says, “I don’t think there’s going to be a lot of benefits going out to illegal immigrants”.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Donald Trump would make a decision continuing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Tuesday.

But Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary to former President George W. Bush, said there was something missing from Trump’s remarks in Corpus Christi: “empathy for the people who suffer”.

Trump has been criticized in the past for giving far less of his income to charitable causes than many other multi-billionaires.