Donald Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild even as Republicans vote to take a billion out of disaster relief money to pay for his border wall.

Courtesy of TPM:  

President Donald Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Harvey-caused epic flooding, but his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president’s border wall. 

The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief account is part of a massive spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when lawmakers return from their August recess. The $876 million cut, which is included in the 1,305-page measure’s homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump’s down payment on the U.S.-Mexico border wall that the president repeatedly promised Mexico would finance. 

So here's the thing Texas, on the one hand you won't have to worry about all of those pesky Mexicans taking the jobs you don't want to do anyway, but on the other hand you will be submerged under water.

Hey, nothing's perfect. 

However things may not be as dire as all that.

It seems sure that GOP leaders will move to reverse the disaster aid cut next week as floodwaters cover Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, and tens of thousands of Texans have sought refuge in shelters. There’s only $2.3 billion remaining in federal disaster coffer.

Poor Donald. Here is he all ready to finally achieve his xenophobic dream of keeping brown people out of America, and along comes some natural disaster, super sized by the climate change he refuses to believe in, to ruin the whole thing.

Oh well, surely those Mexicans were only kidding about not paying for it, right?