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Gary Peters: “The request met the FEMA established threat threshold for…”

Featuring: Gary Peters, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Michigan

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

Published | Video Starts at 04:30

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 threat threshold for federal assistance. I have behind me a chart that's up there now showing this unprecedented politicization of disastrous distance by the administration. (04:30–04:35)

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Asserts that the disaster requests from blue states met FEMA's threat threshold for federal assistance.

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