FEMA and weather-related environmental issues

Republicans in both the House and Senate cannot seem to make up their minds about funding FEMA and weather-related environmental research. A good many of those Republicans "represent" very red states. So yes, they want FEMA to bail them out after e.g., hurricanes in Texas or Florida, floods across the southeast, or droughts. And they want funding for the science behind the natural disasters that plague their states.
They do not want funding for fire or mud slides or tornadoes or anything else.
So you will see Ted Cruz vote for funding of NOAA in one bill and against it in another. You will see Byron Donald gungho about expansion of flood insurance, but in limited terms, only to benefit Florida.
The hypocrisy of the modern iteration of the GOP is very evident in legislation related to FEMA and weather-related environmental issues!

Proposed legislation:

August 23, 2025 - September 19, 2025:
July 17, 2025 - August 22, 2025: No bill had 20+ cosponsors. Not even the July 23 bill to increase FEMA funding for Texas after the July 4 flooding. That bill had twelve Democrats behind it, and zero Republicans.

Note: There are no specific committees dedicated to FEMA and weather-related environment issues. Covered by a variety of committees in both House and Senate.

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Photograph: New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Commander Mark Moran, of the NOAA Aviation Weather Center, and Lt. Phil Eastman and Lt. Dave Demers, of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, all commissioned officers of the NOAA Corps, flew more than 100 hours surveying Katrina’s devastation. Eastman piloted NOAA’s Bell 212 Twin Huey Helicopter from August 31 to September 19. All three men took dozens of aerial photos from an altitude of several feet to 500 feet. Photo credits: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.