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Trump FEMA disaster approval override controversy
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FIRST ENTRY JUL 29
JUL 29 · Day 1
Report: Trump overrode FEMA approvals of Democratic disaster requests
FEMA has paid roughly $850 million in snow assistance since 1999.
Then-FEMA acting administrator Cameron Hamilton was fired after clashing with then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
FEMA's cost threshold for New Jersey is $18 million.
“New York State exceeded both the financial damages and snowfall thresholds necessary to receive a Major Disaster Declaration for February’s blizzard, and we will be appealing the decision,”
MATT JANISZEWSKI
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