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On the recordJune 28, 2021
The Trump administration took unprecedented steps to criticize natural disaster survivors and continuously threatened to deny or withdraw aid to jurisdictions such as Puerto Rico and California.
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Nanette Barragán
Democratic · California

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Criticism of the Trump administration's handling of disaster aid.

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