Trump rejected FEMA disaster aid requests from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, four states that did not vote for him. Together they had asked for about $227 million after a severe blizzard in February. All four were well past the damage threshold that triggers consideration for federal aid.
Two days earlier, he had approved disaster aid for six Republican-led states, praising GOP politicians and candidates in those states as he did.
The pattern is not new. Politico reported in March that during the first year of Trump's second term, approvals of federal disaster relief for red states edged upward while approvals for blue states collapsed to unprecedented lows. A White House spokesperson said there is “no politicization to the President's decisions on disaster relief.”
Disaster aid is meant to turn on the scale of the damage, not the politics of the governor. Conditioning it on whether a state's voters supported the president treats a statutory relief program as a reward for loyalty (see FEMA Cut Hazard-Mitigation Grants From $91 Million a Month to $3 Million; California Has Received $830,000 Since July, Colorado Has Received Nothing).