(WIB) – One of the most destructive tornadoes in recent years tore a 23-mile path across urban St Louis on May 16, causing an estimated $1.6 billion in damages and killing five people. While it was not quite as powerful as the 2011 tornado that leveled much of Joplin, Mo., the St Louis twister is drawing comparisons.

But despite the scale of the devastation, President Trump has yet to declare the tornado a federal emergency — leaving those whose lives have been upended by the historic storm, many of whom are Black, without any support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a St. Louis native, explained in an Instagram post that: FEMA isn’t showing up “not because people aren’t willing to show up,” but because the Trump Administration “fails

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