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Gary Peters Grills Markwayne Mullin On Trump's 'Unprecedented Politicization' Of Disaster Relief

Published | Video Starts at 04:43

I have behind me a chart that's up there now showing this unprecedented politicization of disastrous distance by the administration. I don't think there's any other president since the establishment of FEMA that has chosen to actually punish American citizens that have survived a flood or a wildfire because their home state, governor or senator's political affiliation. So in these disasters, as you know, Americans have lost their homes, their possession, suffered so much. (04:43–04:58)

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Asserts that no other president has punished citizens based on political affiliation for disaster aid since FEMA's establishment.

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