I personally had to go down to moderate a meeting between FEMA, the Navajo Nation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the local county government to try to figure out what was going on and make sure we could expend those funds.
Lujan recounts his involvement in resolving a FEMA funding issue for the Navajo Nation.
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Instead of addressing the affordability crisis, my Republican colleagues are fueling Trump’s chaos and corruption.
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