To support potentially impacted areas in the United States, the federal government remains in close contact and coordination with state and local officials, and stands ready to support them.

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So you have the federal government pulling back in effect, state governments raising tuitions all over the United States and therefore you have a situation in which many young people from many moderate income and poor families simply do not have the access to higher education that they once had.

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And I've directed the full resources of the federal government to help state and local authorities protect our people, increase security around the United States as necessary, and investigate what happened.

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