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President Donald Trump on Monday drew the ire of MAGA loyalists when it was reported that his administration would punish any state boycotting Israel.
Early Monday afternoon, Reuters published a report detailing the Trump administration’s decision to withhold disaster funding to states that boycott companies tied to Israel. In a statement obtained by Reuters, FEMA said that states must follow the agency’s “terms and conditions.” One condition prohibits states from ending “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies.”
That news was not received well by some of his most prominent supporters. Candace Owens, for example, accused Trump of betraying the American people by tying disaster funding to loyalty to a foreign country. She also claimed it was an “act of treason.”
“Denying Americans who won’t support the genocide being conducted by your friends,” she said in a tweet. “Trump has fully betrayed America for Netanyahu and if you cannot see that now you are completely blind. Best 100 million Miriam Adelson ever spent.
“Yes,
She was far from the only one who shared that sentiment, with critics and supporters alike arguing that Trump’s stance was the opposite of “America first.”
These new conditions, the report continued, are tied to approximately $1.9 billion that state use “search-and-rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries and backup power systems.”