(MOUNT VERNON, Wash.) – As the region just starts to clean up after some of the most devastating flooding in decades, tension between state government and the White House could hamper recovery effort. President Trump has declared a federal disaster for Washington state, but how much assistance the federal government offers remains to be seen.
But this is nothing new. In the past, President Trump has suggested that states should handle emergency response on their own, with out the help of FEMA and other agencies. His administration has also slow-walked, or outright rejected previous requests for help from blue states. Most notably, last year's bomb cyclone.
That disaster happened at the tail end of the Biden Administration, but the rebuilding stretched months into Trump's second term. Washington, under both Governors Inslee and Ferguson, requested federal help only to have it rejected.
We'll hear from Governor Bob Ferguson, Senator Maria Cantwell, and even disaster response leaders.
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Guests include Attorney General Nick Brown, ABC News Deputy Political Director Ben Siegel, and national correspondent Steven Portnoy.
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