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href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/donald-trump-shutdown-threat">told</a> supporters that he is willing to let the federal government shut down if funding for his beloved border wall is not included in Congress&#x2019;s upcoming spending bill, which is due in September. &#x201C;If we have to close down our government, we&#x2019;re building that wall,&#x201D; Trump said in Phoenix. &#x201C;One way or the other, we&#x2019;re going to get that wall.&#x201D; Having failed to extract the necessary money from Mexico, and having soured on making U.S. consumers pay through import taxes, it seemed the president would be blackmailing Congress instead.</p><p data-reactid="228">At the time, Wall Street raised the <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/odds-of-a-government-shutdown-are-skyrocketing">odds of a shutdown</a> to 50 percent, with members of Trump&#x2019;s own party suggesting they could be as high as 75 percent. Now, in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the political calculus seems to have changed: it is hard to imagine the government shutting down while America&#x2019;s fourth-largest city is underwater and thousands of people are displaced. But don&#x2019;t start cheering the G.O.P.&#x2019;s spirit of generosity just yet. The recent natural disaster has also highlighted how Republicans have been planning on allocating money for things no one wants by cutting into services people desperately need. Per the <a href="https://www.apnews.com/83e6782d48e04993a741b834771c078b?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP_Politics"><em>Associated Press</em></a>:</p><div data-reactid="229"><blockquote>
<p>Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Hurricane Harvey, but his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president&#x2019;s border wall. The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency&#x2019;s disaster relief account is part of a spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when Congress returns from its August recess. The $876 million cut, part of the 1,305-page measure&#x2019;s homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump&#x2019;s down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.</p>
</blockquote></div><p data-reactid="230">Given that this idea was proposed before the catastrophic devastation wreaked by Harvey, House Republicans will almost certainly backtrack on this particular provision when Congress reconvenes next week. Even <strong>Paul Ryan</strong> can appreciate how bad it would look to slash $1 billion from the disaster fund, which only has $2.3 billion left in it (not that it stopped multiple Republican lawmakers from Texas from <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-harvey-ted-cruz-texas-republicans-vote-sandy-aid-2017-8">voting against disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy in 2012</a>). But it&#x2019;s still fun to see what kind of cutbacks the government would have happily pushed through if they had not been made politically toxic by another massive storm.</p></div><div class="component-content-footer main-bottom" data-reactid="231"><div class="component-content-footer__article-tools article-tools" data-reactid="232"><span class="social-heading" data-reactid="233">Share</span><div class="component-social-share colored component-content-footer__social-share closed" data-component="SocialShare" role="list" data-reactid="234"><div class="share-item email" data-component="email" data-href="mailto:?subject=Republicans%20Considering%20Making%20Hurricane%20Victims%20Pay%20for%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Wall&amp;body=" role="listitem" data-reactid="235"><a aria-label="Email" href="mailto:?subject=Republicans%20Considering%20Making%20Hurricane%20Victims%20Pay%20for%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Wall&amp;body=" rel="noopener" data-reactid="236"><span class="icon" data-reactid="237"></span><span class="label" data-reactid="238">Email</span></a></div><div class="share-item facebook" data-component="facebook" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=&amp;t=Republicans%20Considering%20Making%20Hurricane%20Victims%20Pay%20for%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Wall" role="listitem" data-reactid="239"><a aria-label="Facebook share" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=&amp;t=Republicans%20Considering%20Making%20Hurricane%20Victims%20Pay%20for%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Wall" rel="noopener" target="_blank" data-reactid="240"><span class="icon" data-reactid="241"></span><span class="label" data-reactid="242">Facebook</span></a></div><div class="share-item twitter" data-component="twitter" data-href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Republicans%20Considering%20Making%20Hurricane%20Victims%20Pay%20for%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Wall&amp;url=" role="listitem" data-reactid="243"><a aria-label="Tweet" href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Republicans%20Considering%20Making%20Hurricane%20Victims%20Pay%20for%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Wall&amp;url=" rel="noopener" target="_blank" data-reactid="244"><span class="icon" data-reactid="245"></span><span class="label" data-reactid="246">Twitter</span></a></div></div></div><!-- react-empty: 247 --></div></div><aside class="rail hide-sm-down col-md-4 col-xl-3" data-reactid="248"><div class="sticky-ad-container" data-reactid="249"><div class="component-sticky " style="top:195px;" data-reactid="250"><div data-reactid="251"><div class="inner" data-reactid="252"></div></div><div data-reactid="253"></div></div></div></aside></div></div></article><div class="recirc-wrapper" data-reactid="254"><div class="internal-recirc" data-reactid="255"><span class="internal-recirc__message" data-reactid="256">YOU MIGHT LIKE</span><ul class="internal-recirc__items" data-reactid="257"><li class="internal-recirc__item" data-reactid="258"><a class="internal-recirc__link" href="/style/2017/08/melania-trump-hurricane-harvey-heels" data-reactid="259"><div class="internal-recirc__details" data-reactid="260"><span class="internal-recirc__title" data-reactid="261">Who Wears Stilettos to a Hurricane? 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