Gary Peters: “Reports that President Trump has approved nearly 90% of…”

“But now, under Trump's second tenure as president, we have witnessed the politicization of disaster assistance, unfortunately, I think is a massive scale. There are Reports that President Trump has approved nearly 90% of disaster requests from red states, but only 23% from blue states. even when the request met the FEMA established threshold for federal assistance. I have behind me a chart that's up there now showing this unprecedented politicization of disaster assistance by the administration.” (00:56–01:08)

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