If the federal government and states are going to move, it would likely be soon.
You've got 7 states and 2000 miles to go to reach the end of the road.
So it goes across California on the 42d day in which the state has gone without a budget.
The state went Republican in every election but two from 1952 to 1988.
The biggest state of all, California, is going to do something similar soon.
What if the eight states of the upper South had all gone the same way?
Do you know how long the present state of emergency has been going on?
How far other states go in offering such programs is an open question.
"It just shows that the state didn't go out of its way" to provide help.