Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Aid Disaster

In this divided era
surely one thing
Republicans and Democrats in Congress
can agree on

is a $19 billion natural disaster aid package
benefiting several states
and Puerto Rico

right?

Well House Republicans Thomas Massie from Kentucky
and Chip Roy from Texas

apparently don't like it
because it increases the national debt
and lacks the border operations funding
that Trump requested

despite approval
from the Senate
and Trump's own voice of support
and agreement to sign the bill.

When Trump

(after a fashion)

is in this particular case
behaving more morally
than you are

it's time to reconsider
what you're willing
to go into debt for

even if it's a silly thing
like helping people.


This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.