Trump backs $500K for flood-ravaged South Dakota Indian reservation
President gives nod to Sen. Thune as Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe's request OK'ed; state voters lauded for supporting previous campaigns
The White House is coming to the rescue of a South Dakota Indian tribe that saw widespread storm and flood devastation on its reservation last spring.
And President Donald Trump gave a nod to South Dakota’s John Thune, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, as he touted his approval for a disaster relief request from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe Tuesday.
"I just got off the phone with our wonderful Republican Leader John Thune,” the president said in a statement posted on Truth Social announcing his he’d signed off on a $500,000 allocation of federal dollars to help the tribe clean up the Lake Traverse Reservation following storms and flooding in mid-June.
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