{"id":195738,"date":"2020-04-01T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=195738"},"modified":"2020-04-02T08:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T13:53:05","slug":"trump-grants-major-presidential-disaster-to-nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=195738","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Major Presidential Disaster Declaration, ND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TrumpIran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-144484\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TrumpIran-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TrumpIran-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TrumpIran-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TrumpIran.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Bismarck (CSi)\u00a0 \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum Wednesday announced that President Donald Trump has granted the governor\u2019s request for a major presidential disaster declaration to make federal assistance available to support North Dakota\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply grateful to the President and his administration for making this assistance available to help us expand our response efforts and protect public health as the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly evolves,\u201d Burgum said. \u201cWe also appreciate the support from our state\u2019s congressional delegation and the many local, state, federal and tribal partners contributing to this unprecedented effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In declaring that a major disaster exists in North Dakota, President Trump ordered federal assistance to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in areas affected by the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. The declaration makes federal funding available to state, tribal and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations for emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum declared a state of emergency on March 13 and activated the state\u2019s Unified Command to coordinate a whole-of-government and whole-of-community approach to the COVID-19 response. He has since signed more than a dozen executive orders aimed at combating the spread of the novel coronavirus and providing relief to North Dakota citizens, employees and employers, health care workers, first responders and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck (CSi)\u00a0 \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum Wednesday announced that President Donald Trump has granted the governor\u2019s request for a major presidential disaster declaration to make federal assistance available to support North Dakota\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. \u201cWe are deeply grateful to the President and his administration for making this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195824,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195738\/revisions\/195824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}