"The destruction caused by the summer storms was enough that past presidents likely would have approved requests for federal assistance."
"President Donald Trump, who has assailed Illinois’ governor and its largest city, denied disaster aid to thousands of Chicago residents even though his administration documented extraordinary damage from two major storms this summer, records obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News show.
Trump’s denials are the first time any president since at least 2007 — including Trump to this point — has refused to help residents recover from such extensive damage to their homes, federal records show.
Trump denied both aid requests from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Oct. 22, two weeks after saying Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) “should be in jail” for “failing to protect” federal immigration enforcement officers."
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