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Trump surveys ‘epic’ damage as Texas braces for long recovery

Bloomberg Published on Wed, Aug 30, 2017 / 8:53 AM GMT+8

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(Aug 30): With Texas still being lashed by rain and rescues still underway, President Donald Trump vowed that the government’s response to Hurricane Harvey would serve as a model for disaster recovery.

“We want to be looked at five years, 10 years from now, as this is the way to do it,” Trump said Tuesday as he and first lady Melania Trump received a briefing on the storm response at a fire station in Corpus Christi, Texas.

At a meeting with state officials in Austin, Texas, later in the day Trump said recovery from the storm will be “a costly proposition” but added that he expected to be able to work with Congress to “come through with the right solution.”