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James Lankford: “For a tribe to make a disaster declaration, it is $250,000 worth of damage.”

On the recordFebruary 7, 2017
For a tribe to make a disaster declaration, it is $250,000 worth of damage.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Lankford clarifies the damage threshold for tribal disaster declarations.

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