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John Cornyn: “There are financial thresholds that ordinarily have to be…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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EXTENDED INTERVIEW _ Senator John Cornyn_ _We need to get ready for the next hurricane

Published | Video Starts at 04:36

The good news is we didn't get hit as hard as some of those places in Louisiana. As Governor Abbott said, we dodged a bullet. But There are financial thresholds that ordinarily have to be met in order to get qualified for that individual assistance. But we'll keep working with the governor and local officials there in fema. So far, Nim Kid, the chief of the Texas Department of Emergency Management has said they have been really bent over backwards to be responsive to our needs in Texas. (04:36–04:45)

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Asserts that financial thresholds must be met to qualify for individual assistance from FEMA.

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