Biden Offers NY Federal Help With Record Blizzard

The Hill reports:

President Biden spoke by phone with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Monday and offered federal assistance as New York deals with a massive winter storm that has claimed more than two dozen lives.

Biden offered federal help to address the impacts of the “historic winter storm,” the White House said, adding he’s directed officials to respond to any requests for assistance from New York.

“This is a major disaster that in some ways may turn out to be worse than the blizzard of ’77,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said at a news conference on Sunday.

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