President Barack Obama toured flood-ravaged areas of New Jersey on Sunday as he urged that Washington’s dysfunctional political culture not be permitted to interfere in relief efforts.
“I know that there’s been some talk about whether there’s going to be a slowdown in getting funding out here, emergency relief,” Obama said while standing on a bridge in hard-hit Paterson, N.J.
“And the last thing that the residents here of Paterson or the residents of Vermont or the residents of upstate New York need is Washington politics getting in the way of us making sure that we are doing what we can to help communities that have been badly affected.”
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